Links
Most of my work and interest relates to herd health (and antibiotic auditing to gain insights into herd health), infectious disease control (BVD, Johne’s etc), lameness, mastitis metabolic, metabolic health, uterine health and a whole range of topics related to cow comfort, care and welfare. Here are the websites I visit most frequently.
AMU: Guidance on antimicrobial resistance and responsible use of antibiotics
WHO Critically Important antibiotics including high priority: http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/antimicrobials-fifth/en/
Reserve, watch, access groups: http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines/20th_EML2017.pdf?ua=1
European medicine agency: http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/special_topics/general/general_content_000439.jsp
ECDC: https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/antimicrobial-resistance
RUMA: http://www.ruma.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/RUMA_antimicrobial_long_cattle_revised_2015.pdf
NOAH: http://www.noah.co.uk/medicine-topics/antibiotics-for-animals/resistance/
VMD: https://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/pdf/leaflet_antimicrobials.pdf
UK sales records: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/veterinary-antimicrobial-resistance-and-sales-surveillance
Cow comfort:
Dairyland initiative – thanks to Nigel Cook and team
Evidence-based veterinary medicine
Infectious disease:
BVD: BVD free England
Cattle health certification standards: Checs
Johnes: Action Johne’s
Lameness:
Cattle hoofcare standards board
Healthy Feet Website – https://cattle-lameness.org.uk
Register of mobility scorers – https://roms.org.uk/
Mastitis: Mastitis control plan (thanks to Andrew Bradley, James Breen and Martin Green)
Metabolic disease – my head, so I will add pages
Nutrition: NRC (note this is a free download of a very good book)
Uterine health – none, so I will add pages here
Water quality: Professor David Beede (MSU) – this chap is brilliant
Welfare: my head but also
See Dairyland/CowComfort above
