Akkhararatchakumari Veterinary College’s Teaching Hospital, Walailak University with the Department of Livestock Development hold a seminar of “Knowing the disease, fighting the crisis  of African Swine Fever (ASF)”. The seminar was co-hosted by The The Southern Swine Farmer Association  and declared open by The director of the office of regional Livestock region 8 Dr.Sumate Methasart. There are almost 500 swine producers attended the seminar and gained  practical knowledge of current situation of the outbreak in Asia and neighboring countries around Thailand , ASF prevention and control measures, and contingency plans during the outbreak. All the swine producers could bring back the knowledge from the seminar to the farm and will have better preparedness for the threatening new disease which has no treatment and no vaccine.

Akkhararatchakumari Veterinary College (AVC) welcomed a visiting professor namely Professor Doctor Norbert Menceke an outstanding veterinary parasitology researcher from Bayer Research Department of Bayer Compay, Germany. Prof.Mencke expert fields are in ectoparasite and protozoal drug development in various animal hosts. From this visit , Prof. Mencke have had a chance to discuss about AVC’s Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree curriculum with AVC dean Clinical Professor Dr.Suwichai Rochanasathien, visiting health sciences laboratories, lab animal facilities of Walalilak university. For the better understanding of the overall animal management in Nakorn Si Thammarat, AVC took Prof. Mencke for a study tour in bull fighting arena, real fighting cock event and practical ground for red-vented bulbul competition. Along with the visit, Prof.Mencke gave AVC students and staffs an inspiring lecture titled “How to conduct research in global perspective”. Prof. Mencke showed interested in applying to be future AVC permanent staff in 2020. From his background of publishing more than 100 publications plus patenting products, AVC has high hope in Prof.Mencke participation and mentorship to AVC young researchers to bring AVC to the next step of veterinary research world.

Class of 2018 of Akkhararatchakumari Veterinary College (AVC) attended the subject VET 61-211 Basic Practical Skill which covers animal behavior, animal restraint, and physical examination topics in small animals, exotic pet species and food animals as well. The beauty of small class-size which AVC offers is the students can have more chances to practice and enhance their practical skills for future practice. This part of practical regimen is physical examination and sample collection from dogs. All students can perform basic physical examination in dogs including heart and lung auscultations, taking rectal temperature, and many other examinations. Sample collection part is taking blood samples from important blood vessels namely; cephalic vein, saphenous vein, femoral vein and jugular vein. At the end of the practical class, all of the 7 students were successfully perform blood collection. More than the successful outcomes, the students learned about their performances both the good sides, the mistake and the correction of those mistakes made. In the short future, the students will have more chances to practice in exotic animal species and farm animal species, as much as they have done in small animals.