Photos from the history of the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Editors note: This was a wonderful letter to receive because it so nicely commented on the people and situations that produce a publication such as this. It made this staff feel good about not only where the ISU Veterinarian is going, but from whence it came.

Half a century may sound like a long time, but memories of the early days of The Veterinary Student (the original name of the Iowa State University Veterinarian) are as vivid as they are persistent. The staff was proud of this pioneering venture and flattered to be imitated by Student AVMA chapters over the nation.

Photos of the graduating class of 1988 of the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Bovine Respiratory Syncytial virus (BRSV) has quickly become one of the major respiratory viruses in cattle in the U.S. Literary reports from various areas of the U.S. and Canada show that BRSV is present in 38 to 81 percent of the beef and dairy cattle tested. Bovine Respiratory Syncytial virus, first isolated in Switzerland in 1970 from an outbreak of respiratory disease involving dairy cattle, is a nonhemagglutinating pneumovirus in the family Paramyxoviridae. The virus was named for its characteristic property of promoting fusion of cells into multinucleated giant cells (syncytial cells).

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