Third year has been a full blast of clinical application-type classes. Classes where all the anatomy and physiology, pathology, bacteriology, virology, and other assorted -ologies all come together to start painting real, diagnostic scenarios and plausible medical cases. We are learning more disease processes, clinical relevance and practical information. Along with all of that also […]
African Swine Fever: Outbreaks
Since August cases of African Swine Fever have been spreading throughout China, with the risk of the virus spreading to neighboring Asian countries. African Swine Fever, though not contagious to humans, is a virus that is terminal in pigs. This virus spreads easily and has decimated swine populations in China, Russia, and is spreading to […]
Back at it Again
It is my third year in school to be a veterinary technician. The last year. After what has felt like the shortest summer of my life, I am back at school. I have been working in a veterinary clinic all summer and it has gone by in a flash. Back at school, I feel like […]
