Posted on September 23, 2022
World Rabies Day is taking place on 28 September to promote awareness on the impact and control of human and animal rabies
Posted on September 01, 2022
Residents of Mamelodi have since 2011 been able to have their pets checked, vaccinated & sterilised at the Mamelodi Animal Health Clinic. This low-cost clinic is on UP’s Mamelodi Campus and is managed by UP's Faculty of Veterinary Science.
Posted on August 31, 2022
The Faculty's 2022 PD (Pregnancy Diagnosis) Challenge, sponsored by the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Zoetis and IMV Imaging, was again a great success.
Posted on August 16, 2022
Helping to contribute to food security and farming success, veterinary reproduction specialists at UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science performed surgery on a 4-year-old red Brahman bull to restore him to reproductive health.
Posted on August 10, 2022
Eight students of UP Veterinary Science travelled more than 4000km – from UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science to Zimbabwe and Zambia – to deliver boxes of veterinary textbooks, microscopes, and loads of veterinary supplies to worthy recipients.
Posted on July 28, 2022
The University of Pretoria (UP) has embarked on a campaign to create awareness, attract new donors, and encourage existing donors to increase their funding to the University.
Posted on July 20, 2022
UP academics are playing a lead role in the reintroduction of wild cheetahs into India as part of efforts to ensure the global survival of the species. It will be the first intercontinental species reintroduction of its kind.
Posted on July 12, 2022
UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science plays an important part in supporting South Africa’s small-scale farming community, through our Primary Animal Health Care training programme.
Posted on July 11, 2022
Equine clinical training in the Faculty of Veterinary Science recently received a welcome boost when a brand-new multipurpose equine simulator model was unveiled in its Skills Laboratory.
Posted on June 23, 2022
The long-crested eagle (L. occipitalis), an African bird of prey naturally occurs in moist woodland and forest edges, particularly if that habitat is near grassland, marshland, a river or a stream. It is sometimes also found in drier woodland, mixed farmland, on grazing land or on the edges of...
Posted on June 14, 2022
When Hera, a 20-month-old crossbreed Labrador/pitbull visited the sterilisation clinic at UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science, the vets there discovered a heart murmur that led to heart surgery that likely saved her life.
Posted on June 07, 2022
Since the 1990s the Onderstepoort Animal Blood Bank (OABB) has been the saving grace of many dogs, cats, and even prized stud sheep, horses and cattle in need of life-saving blood transfusions.
Posted on May 23, 2022
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has awarded Dr Gideon Brückner, an alumnus of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science, the OIE Gold Medal for 2020.
Posted on May 20, 2022
Three UP Faculty of Veterinary Science alumni recently reunited in the US to relieve a six-ton elephant of “toothache” by performing a specialised tusk extraction.
Posted on May 05, 2022
UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science has conferred degrees in veterinary nursing (BVetNurs) on the country’s first-ever cohort of graduates.
Posted on May 04, 2022
Professor Johan Schoeman leads the Pathobiology Research Theme in the faculty and is the former Head of the Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies.
Posted on May 03, 2022
UP has awarded Emeritus Professor Jacobus Andries Wynand (Koos) Coetzer with an honorary doctorate for his contributions to the field of infectious and parasitic diseases of livestock and wildlife.
Posted on May 03, 2022
The Faculty of Veterinary Science is proud of its latest successful PhD graduates who, on Friday 29 April, were awarded their doctoral degrees at the autumn graduation ceremony of the University of Pretoria.
Posted on April 15, 2022
Before taking Nero to UP’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, the vet told his owner, Daleen James, the operation was serious, and that it might be better to put him down. “My daughter and I said, ‘No way’,” says James.
Posted on April 08, 2022
As part of a vaccination drive against rabies, staff and student volunteers from UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science recently provided free care and advice for pets and their owners in Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria.
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