FECAVA Symposium on Canine Vector-Borne Diseases was held on the second day of FECAVA EuroCongress in St Petersburg on September 5, 2019. Luigi Venco DVM, SCPA, EVPC from Italy lectured about Heartworm – from diagnosis to therapy and about Angiostrongylus vasorum – unsuspecting killer. Gad Baneth, DVM, Ph.D. Dipl. ECVCP from Israel presented an update on
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EPRUMA The European Platform for the Responsible Use of Medicines in Animals was established in 2005 and works to promote the responsible use of medicine in animals in the EU. Their partners, one of which is FECAVA, include European organisations representing veterinarians, farmers, manufacturers of animal medicines and diagnostics, feed manufacturers and animal care professionals,
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The Dutch government accepted the law in 2014, which prohibits the breeding of about 20 short-snouted dog breeds, as defined by the system of head measurement, using traffic light colors classification. According to this criterion, only dogs with the length of a muzzle at least a third of the head are allowed to breed. The
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Early neutering of cats (before the age of 4 months) is widely used in some countries while uncommon in others. At the FVE General Assembly in June, a position paper on early neutering of cats was presented and unanimously adopted. The initiative was led by former FECAVA president Monique Megens and Dominique Autier-Derian, who were
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