Care for horses & livestock/farm animals
Care for cats, dogs & other companion animals
Before a mosquito can transmit a disease like dengue fever, Zika, or malaria to a human, the mosquito itself must get infected. That means the parasite or virus must find a way around the natural defenses of the insect’s immune system.
Oriol Sunyer, a professor of immunology and pathobiology, shared his research on fish immunology and vaccine development as well as his keen interest in marine conservation.
Atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin condition and the most common form of eczema, is estimated to afflict as much as 10 percent of the population in the United States.
Two Penn Vet researchers are advancing the concept of One Health, the idea that the health and wellbeing of humans, animals and the environment are interconnected.
Some 30 percent of the world’s population is chronically infected with Toxoplasma gondii, which can be life-threatening for people with suppressed immune systems.