Posted on November 27, 2023
Prof Armanda Bastos, Professor of One Health in the Faculty of Veterinary Science’s Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (DVTD) was recently inaugurated as an official member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF).
Posted on November 13, 2023
New research arising from a collaboration between scientists at the University of Pretoria (UP) and Trinity College Dublin has shown there are likely more warm-bodied sharks out there than previously thought.
Posted on November 02, 2023
A recent visit from the Netherlands’ University of Utrecht to UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science helps strengthen collaborations in the veterinary world and helps South Africa tackle diseases.
Posted on October 23, 2023
“New and innovative thinking is needed to deal with the reality on the ground in South Africa,” says specialist poultry health veterinarian and senior lecturer at UP Dr Shahn Bisschop, speaking about the outbreak of avian flu in the country.
Posted on October 03, 2023
Professor Bruce Gummow, an alumnus, former staff member and Extraordinary Professor in the Faculty of Veterinary Science’s Department of Production Animal Studies recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern African Society of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive...
Posted on September 26, 2023
Having continued her bravery with her recovery from surgery after robbers shot her in the head, the veterinary team that performed surgery on Phoenix at UP’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital believes she will continue to live a full life.
Posted on September 21, 2023
As global warming turns up the heat, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and a probiotic added to the feed of chickens raised for meat on small-scale farms in South Africa could help them cope better with heat stress.
Posted on September 05, 2023
Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen that causes listeriosis, a life-threatening disease that could cause miscarriage and stillbirth among pregnant women.
Posted on August 31, 2023
Professor Rhoda Leask was recently appointed as the Deputy Dean for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Veterinary Science.
Posted on August 21, 2023
The weekend of Saturday, 12 August 2023 saw the hosting of the first ever official Onderstepoort campus Parkrun at the Faculty of Veterinary Science. And what a successful, exciting and festive event it was with more than 500 participants that completed the Parkrun.
Posted on August 18, 2023
UP has been ranked number two in South Africa and Africa in the highly cited researchers' category of the 2023 Shanghai Ranking. Overall, the university ranked number three in the country and fourth in Africa.
Posted on August 01, 2023
While our Faculty's Veterinary Academic Hospital has seen tremendous growth and success over the last few years, we unfortunately have also been impacted by the country-wide shortage of general practice veterinarians that has featured widely in the press.
Posted on July 26, 2023
This issue features research from all of the University of Pretoria's nine faculties and our business school, the Gordan Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and shows how our research is opening a new world and a better future.
Posted on July 05, 2023
Wildlife veterinarians Dr Jacques O'Dell and Dr Bart Gazendam, and students of the Faculty recently assisted the City of Tshwane with the capture and relocation of five cheetahs residing in the Rietvlei Nature Reserve.
Posted on June 10, 2023
What do you do when a vulture with a crushed beak needs a new beak and two attempts to fit an acrylic beak fail? You improvise and use the beak of a deceased vulture, successfully enabling the injured bird to feed again.
Posted on June 08, 2023
Veld fires are common in South Africa and according to local studies will increase in frequency over the next three decades. Farmers are emotionally and financially affected by fires, sustaining losses including feed, facilities, livestock, and future performance of surviving livestock exposed to...
Posted on May 30, 2023
A veterinary specialist from the University of Pretoria (UP) and the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital has performed South Africa’s first transvenous electrical cardioversion (TVEC) on a horse. It is believed this is the first time this procedure is performed in Africa.
Posted on May 22, 2023
Dr Ross Elliott, a specialist small animal veterinary surgeon at UP’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, worked with a team from Somaliland’s Cheetah Conservation Fund to save Janet, a cheetah, from amputation and euthanasia.
Posted on May 19, 2023
Dr Ilse van Staden, who qualified as veterinarian at the Faculty of Veterinary Science in 1995, is not only an alumnus of the Faculty, but an acclaimed, award-winning poet, writer and artist who recently donated two copies of her debut Afrikaans novel, ‘Goeie dood wat saggies byt’...
Posted on May 04, 2023
Recently a juvenile Secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) was found collapsed in the Mabula Private Game Reserve by a ranger.
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