/ Emerging Diseases Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /news/vet-med-state-dedicate-new-animal-health-food-safety-lab <p>The California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, run by the School of Veterinary Medicine, has opened a fourth lab — this one near Tulare, midway between Fresno and Bakersfield. The School of Veterinary Medicine operates the lab system for the state, to protect animal health and performance, and safeguard public health and the food supply.&nbsp;</p> November 01, 2016 - 11:46am Dave Jones /news/vet-med-state-dedicate-new-animal-health-food-safety-lab /news/new-tulare-diagnostic-lab <p>A new diagnostic laboratory, designed&nbsp;to protect human and animal health and safeguard the nation's food supply,&nbsp;&nbsp;will be dedicated Oct. 8 in Tulare, California, as&nbsp;part of a partnership between the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and the California Department of Food and Agriculture .&nbsp;</p> October 27, 2016 - 11:53am Patricia Bailey /news/new-tulare-diagnostic-lab /news/uc-davis-experts-zika-virus-1 <p>Zika virus, first identified in monkeys in 1947 and in humans in 1952, has become a major health concern since 2015, when health officials in Brazil began to notice that an outbreak of the virus coincided with a significant increase in newborn babies with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads.&nbsp;Zika virus was previously known only to cause relatively mild symptoms, including fever and rash, in infected people.&nbsp;The virus is transmitted to people by the Aedes group of mosquitoes and is known to be present in Africa, South America, Central America and the Western Pacific.</p> January 29, 2016 - 2:31pm Patricia Bailey /news/uc-davis-experts-zika-virus-1