Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health hosts the first live web congress informing about the major cattle disease Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) on November 18th, 2015. Starting at 6 pm CET, the congress will be broadcasted live from Barcelona via the website http://webcongress.bvdzero.com/
The event will focus exclusively on BVD and will feature five international experts with different backgrounds who will share their special insights on the disease.
The goal of Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health is to connect European cattle practitioners and to provide them with the latest information on BVD. Therefore, access to the web congress will be possible from all parts of the world. The sessions will be held in English and will simultaneously be translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and German. Participation is organised via the www.bvdzero.com website. After clicking on the banner of the web congress a short registration process is required to join the event.
There will be five different presentations during the two and a half hour web cast by the international BVD experts:
• Dr Volker Moennig, Professor emeritus, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany
• Dr Robert Fux, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
• Dr Dan Givens, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, USA
• Dr Jocelyn Amiot, Monestoy Veterinary Clinique, Epinac, France
• Dr James Roth, Director, Center for Food Security and Public Health, Iowa State University, USA
An expert scientific journalist will guide the participants through the web congress interviewing the speakers. Participants will have the opportunity to send their questions to the speakers who will answer them live, right after their presentation.
The web congress will provide a general overview on the disease as well as information on a variety of special topics: BVD in dairy animals, the real role of PI (persistently infected) animals, practical tips on BVD management in the suckling cows segment, and the role of cellular and humoral immunity after BVD vaccination.
“BVD is not a problem of a single country, it is a European and an important worldwide problem”, states Volker Moennig. “This web congress is a great opportunity to talk to thousands of vets about the hidden threat represented by BVD.” BVD is one of the major cattle diseases with worldwide distribution. The disease is caused by two different types of viruses (BVDV-1 and BVDV-2). BVD can cause a variety of clinical disease syndromes, including immunosuppression, infertility, abortions and congenital defects in calves. Some animals may develop a more severe condition known as mucosal disease, which can cause high mortality in affected animals.
