Associate Professor Elizabeth Ryan said there is a great deal of rice bran produced around the world, yet it is often either wasted or used as animal feed.
The Rocky Ford Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory provides a wide variety of testing services locally and handling of samples for all testing available through the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory system.
VIDEO: Scott Carver, a former postdoc in Dr. Sue VandeWoude's lab, now a faculty member at the University of Tasmania, won an Ig Nobel prize for studying how, and why, wombats make cube-shaped poo.
The Veterinary Diagnostic Lab at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, tested the samples and identified them to be suspected of CWD infection and will run second tests for confirmation.
VIDEO: "We would be faced with large scale mortality of livestock and lots of sick people," said Kading, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at CSU.
Two CSU faculty members have received a two-year, $345,000 grant from the Colorado Health Foundation to deliver health education to Spanish- and Somali-speaking populations — via members of those communities.
Drs. Mo Salman and Rao Sangeeta presented two case studies on outbreak investigation and surveillance, drafted by CSU experts and China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre.
More sensitive test technology and thorough testing might show a larger spread of the disease, and lead to more culled animals, said Mark Zabel, co-author of the opinion paper and associate director of the Prion Research Center at Colorado State University.
CSU researchers found that mosquitoes that could transmit the virus were abundant in feedlots and at nearby sites.
Zoetis has signed an agreement with Colorado State University (CSU) to establish a research lab at CSU that will explore the livestock immune system and target new immunotherapies – paving the way for new alternatives to antibiotics in food-producing animals.