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Article: Veterinary schools a bottleneck: Field aids human health, but colleges lack openings.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2006
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Byline: Frank D. Roylance
May 29--The catastrophic injury that ended Barbaro's Triple Crown bid at Pimlico on May 20 - and the extraordinary effort by University of Pennsylvania surgeons to save him - have turned a spotlight on veterinary medicine in the United States. Enjoying little of the attention that doctors of human medicine receive, veterinary researchers are using much of the same science to understand, prevent and treat animal injuries, and to fight diseases that affect agriculture and the food supply. Veterinarians are also working on such illnesses as avian flu, West Nile virus, Lyme disease and mad cow disease in a joint effort with public ...