The Democratic Alliance welcomes the recent development where horse owners will again be able to vaccinate their animals against African horse sickness (AHS). This after Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) indicated that they successfully produced and supplied vaccines to animal pharmaceutical companies for sale to farmers, just in time for the upcoming vaccination period in June. This achievement would not have been possible without the relentless pressure exerted by the Democratic .
A veterinary specialist from the University of Pretoria and the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital has performed SA's first transvenous electrical cardioversion on a horse – using synchronised electric shocks to treat an irregular heartbeat.
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