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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve always been puzzled by that. It’s incredibly effective. Super safe. Likely has anti-tussive effects and pain relief through substance p inhibition. Decreases anesthetic gas requirements. Cool drug. We use a ton of it.

If a dog continues to vomit despite cerenia, it’s often an obstruction.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 13h

That’s so cool!

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Zazie Todd PhD @zazietodd.bsky.social · 18h

New post: Dog trainers' methods are linked to likelihood of vet referrals, studies show. In other words, some kinds of trainers are more likely to suggest their client see a vet than others. www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2025/10/dog-...

Dog Trainers' Methods are Linked to Views on Vet Referrals, Studies Show

It turns out that some dog trainers are more willing than others to suggest referrals to a veterinarian, which may have consequences for some dogs.

www.companionanimalpsychology.com

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 18h

These dogs are still going to end up at a vet clinic after being treated in the field. I hope you can see how ridiculously misapplied your economics argument is to this situation.

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 19h

Your insulting argument is especially dumb in this case, which is covering such rare and marginal cases that these laws will have no impact on the bottom line of any clinic. But I know the “vets are greedy” schtick is the only note you know how to play, so unsurprising to see you play it here.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 19h

The vets are not lawmakers. They’re not actually writing the law. They’re objecting to it as written. You decided to push your “all vets are greedy animal haters” narrative onto their concerns, when in fact their concerns seem completely reasonable.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 21h

Great points. As you say, it’s not an argument against interventions, you just have to maintain them. It’s also not an argument that temporary control measures aren’t worth it. Covid NPIs were always going to be temporary, but the lives saved until vaccines was worth the surge in endemic viruses.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

Preprint came out in 2019. Updated in 2020 to model what might happen to seasonal viruses when COVID NPIs ceased.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

It explains things like the rebound in seasonal respiratory illness after Covid control measures stopped as well as the effect of stopping mosquito control programs. Cutting these programs is an absolute fucking disaster, and worse than most people even think.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

My wonderful PhD co-chair Alun Lloyd (down the road from you at NCSU) led this fantastic paper that showed how stopping non-immunizing disease control programs leads to rebounds in morbidity that can outstrip what would occur if the control program was never instituted to begin with.

After the honeymoon, the divorce: Unexpected outcomes of disease control measures against endemic infections

The lack of effective vaccines for many endemic diseases often forces policymakers to rely on non-immunizing control measures, such as vector control, to reduce the massive burden of these diseases. C...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

They’re called Sloppy Cocks in the UK.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

Wow Scott, you’ve got the greatest photo ever for a veterinary ID expert.

UTI Global Alliance @globaluti.bsky.social · 1d

Meet our first veterinary #UTIhour speaker @scottweese.bsky.social, aka Dr. J. Scott Weese, DVM, DVSc, DACVPM! 👋

Dr. Weese is a veterinarian who specializes in infectious diseases, based out of the @uofguelph.bsky.social Ontario Veterinary College 🇨🇦. His professional photo is a delight!

🧵 👇

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

lol. It’s just my mouth making the sound. No actual kazoo

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

This little Chiweenie couldn’t get enough of my mouth kazoo noises. That radar dish of an ear!

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

Occasionally the left would fly up too, but he’s definitely a rightie!
Not a puppy. 2 years old.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

This little Chiweenie couldn’t get enough of my mouth kazoo noises. That radar dish of an ear!

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

I guess you didn’t read the article.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 1d

You have a gift. An incredibly useless yet entertaining gift.

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Jeffrey B. Benyacar 🎗️ @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh! Framing inhalers as “drivers of climate change” is lazy journalism. They’re life-saving medical devices, not SUVs.
Exaggerating a 0.006% emission source while guilt-tripping asthma patients is moral theater, not science.
Statistical telescoping (aggregation fallacy) on full display too. 🛟

Rethinking Inhalers in the Era of Climate Change

Portable, fast-acting, and highly effective, metered-dose inhalers have transformed the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) over the past 70 years. But alongside their...

jamanetwork.com

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 3d

Ivermectin doesn’t treat COVID. Any doctor who says it does is a scientifically illiterate grifting quack. Sincerely, someone who knows what they’re talking about.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 3d

⬆️ one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen in an interview. I almost clapped when I read it.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 3d

Other eye opening comments that obviously didn’t fact checks include blaming alpha-gal on a bacterium, and stating that Bartonella is transmitted to people via tick bites. Sad for this poor kid being treated for something she doesn’t have.

Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 4d

Yes Tom, everything in life is all or nothing. In every authoritarian regime in history, one day there is 0% fascism, the next day there is 100% fascism. No grey areas. No ramping up. Since we aren’t living under a complete dictatorship at this very second, everything is tots fine.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 5d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Steve Valeika @zoonotic1.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for ruining that song for me 😂
Next time I get one of those cases I’m definitely queuing this up during the procedure.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 5d

Yes. This is also what all the demands to show "gratitude" and this obsession with hierarchy is about.

For a long time they were able to engineer and perpetuate absurd expectations of Black silence and/or obeisance.

A lot of their brains broke when POC on social media simply ... did not do this.

hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 6d

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

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