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18th January 2011 - Experience of a Tropical Vet Archie Hunter At the meeting on January 18th the President welcomed the members to the first meeting of the year. They were informed of the visit arranged for April 5th to the Fisheries Museum at Anstruther and of the newly established website for the club. Our speaker was Mr Archie Hunter, a recent recipient of the Alexandre Liautard Prize at the biennial ceremony of The Académie Vétérinaire de France. Archie spent a number of years working in various countries abroad before returning to the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies as a lecturer and is now retired. His talk focused on Botswana and North Yemen, two of the countries where he lived and worked. Slides were shown of the high fencing used to contain Foot and Mouth Disease to the north of Botswana and protect the beef export trade of the south and also of the type of corral erected where the animals of the south are brought for vaccination and blood testing. While there, he launched a scheme vaccinating dogs against rabies to try to control the disease. In North Yemen Archie travelled to remote areas to investigate a wasting illness in cattle where they are fed a diet of alfalfa, leading to vitamin deficiency. Many questions were asked and ably answered and the meeting ran out of time, with members still seeking to ask questions. |