Here’s the guy who really showed us the way when it comes to BRD in cattle today at the Pfizer Animal Health VMRD facilities. He’s Dr. Dan Scruggs and his topic was the whole BRD complex. I know more about diseases I couldn’t pronounce before today than I’ve got time to write about tonight. Let’s just say there are a number causes for bovine respiratory disease and Pfizer has some relatively new products to treat them with

Dr. Scruggs says timing of treatment is the key to success. He was one of the wet lab leaders after his talk. By wet lab I mean we went into a very wet lab and looked at recent necropsy’s of calves that had very diseased lungs so we could see first hand the effect of the diseases. I really think it was the best way to understand how much impact these diseases have and how much damage they can do in a short period of time.

You can listen to my interview with Dr. Scruggs here: pfizer-vmrd-07-scruggs.mp3

Or if you’d like you can download it here: Dr. Dan Scruggs Interview