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Purdue Project Could Help Pets Serve as Disease Watchdogs.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service, March, 2006

Byline: Purdue University

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- A national surveillance network that uses the medical records of companion animals could help prepare for a wide variety of emerging disease threats to humans and animals, including avian influenza, according to veterinary scientists at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine.

The National Companion Animal Surveillance Program was originally designed to alert people to potential anthrax or plague outbreaks. New findings on tests of the program are detailed in the current edition of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, a medical journal that focuses on diseases transmitted to humans by vectors such as mosquitoes or directly from animals.

Larry Glickman, a...

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