We’ve received a message from our Australian colleague Matthew Retchford, Australian Small Animal Veterinary Association (ASAVA): »The fires are terrible. Over billion lives lost their recon. The environment for many of these animals is wiped out! We are many miles away but Melbourne is covered in smoke, asthmatics are really struggling.« Dear Australia, our thoughts
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Dear colleagues, There is no doubt that 2019 has been a wonderful, busy, and productive year at the FECAVA family! We are so grateful to be doing the work we do and to be connected to all of you. We never could have predicted the new and surprising ways our work would grow and evolve
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In the Spanish province of Biscay, a man accepted in the Hospital Universitario de Cruces de Vizcaya in December 2019 was confirmed to be infected with rabies virus after being bitten by a cat in Morocco in August the same year. In the Basque Country, Spain, in the last 30 years there has been no
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Each year FECAVA Membership cards honors one person who made a substantial impact on the companion animal veterinary profession. This year FECAVA Membership card holds a picture of Dr. Richard Völker (1896 – 1981) from Germany. After finishing the Veterinary Medicine at the Veterinary School Hannover in 1921, Dr. Völker started practicing veterinary medicine in
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