Vet student hoping to unravel bovine respiratory disease mysteries

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A second-year veterinary student returned to her home state this summer and not only honed her career path, but she is helping combat the No. 1 cause of illness and death in cattle worldwide.

Samantha Haller graduated with a degree in physiology from the University of Wyoming in 2017 and entered the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University. She was accepted this summer into the diagnostic externship program in the UW Department of Veterinary Sciences.

Samantha says working at the animal shelter in Cheyenne was difficult because she would see animals suffering medically or behaviorally, and not know why.

Her research looks at the roles of Histophilus somni and Mycoplasma bovis in past cases.

She is using two methods on these pneumonia cases: PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and immunohistochemistry. Testing should determine if standard methods are sensitive enough to accurately identify all of the major infectious causes of pneumonia in individual animals.

https://www.myvetcandy.com/familyblog/2020/7/24/vet-student-samantha-haller-is-hoping-to-unravel-bovine-respiratory-disease-mysteries