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FROM  THE  DIRECTOR

H. Leon Thacker, DVM, PhD

Ahh, the pleasant days and nights of Indiana fall weather.  This is one of the somewhat hidden benefits of living in our State; this is a wonderful time of year.  Our concern and offers of assistance go out to our countrymen in the states to our south who were so devastated by the storms, the losses in the affected areas are felt by us all.  Fall brings a new set of challenges and adjustments with the start of the new school year and the seasonal change of animal and people disease spectra.  One of the topics that is receiving a lot of press now is the newly recognized canine influenza that is an H3N8 type.  We have had two suspicious cases of this condition presented to our Indiana laboratories; however, the specimens as received were not confirmed as definitive for this condition.

  Later this fall, we will be testing about 1,000 hunter-killed deer for Chronic Wasting Disease by the immunohistochemistry method.  This testing will be in cooperation with the Indiana DNR as surveillance for the presence of CWD in our state.  Testing has been performed in the fall of each of the past four years for CWD in our deer; so far none have been found.  ADDL is also participating in the national surveillance program for Scrapie of sheep and goats, the IHC testing procedure is essentially identical to that of CWD testing.  We're running a few hundred Scrapie tests/week on samples collected by state and federal veterinarians, primarily in slaughter facilities.  Our bacteriology laboratory is and has been very busy also in performing the testing for the nationally supported state surveillance program for Johne's disease in Indiana cattle.  All of these processes involve intricate sample manipulation and testing procedures.

  We recently had three veterinary scientists from Morocco in our laboratory participating in a USDA sponsored learning program that involved specially prepared short courses in bacteriology, immunohistochemistry, immunology, epidemiology and molecular diagnostics taught by members of the ADDL faculty.  The program prepared for the scientists also involved trips to the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa and the National Foreign Animal Disease Laboratory on Long Island, New York.  The program was judged to be a very successful one and very beneficial to our fellow diagnostic scientists from Morocco.  Special thanks to our faculty for providing the instruction to them.

Hope you enjoy our fall weather and again invite you to let us know if there are services that we should be providing to accommodate your diagnostic needs.  We are here to serve you.

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