• In this issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, guest editors Drs. Elizabeth Parker, Charles Fossler, and Carla Huston bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Transboundary Diseases of Cattle and Bison. Top experts discuss the highly contagious diseases that affect cattle and bison and present strategies to mitigate the health risks.


    Key Features

    • Contains 11 relevant, practice-oriented topics including lumpy skin disease; Rift Valley fever; re-emerging/notifiable diseases to watch; outbreak investigations, compartmentalization/regionalization vaccination; and more.
    • Provides in-depth clinical reviews on transboundary diseases of cattle and bison, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
    • Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
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  • Charles Fossler

    Affiliations and expertise

    Beef Specialist / Veterinary Epidemiologist, National Animal Health Monitoring System, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Elizabeth Parker

    Elizabeth Parker is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Work at the Queensland University of Technology. She has teaching and research experience in public health and health promotion in Australia, and was formerly a senior manager in the Department of Public Health, Toronto, Canada. She is co-author, with Professor Mary Louise Fleming, of the book Health promotion: principles and practice in the Australian context. She holds a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Toronto.

    Affiliations and expertise

    Associate Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, The Texas A&M University System, Lubbock, TX, USA


    Carla Huston

    Affiliations and expertise

    Professor, Mississippi State University, CVM Pathobiology/Population Med Department, Mississippi State, MS, USA

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