Category Archives: One Health

Monkeypox and Strep Zoo: What Pet Owners Should Know

A dog coughing
Usually, I devote the month of June to writing about cats in honor of Adopt a Cat Month. But the infectious disease news is so important right now, I am delaying my annual series of feline blog posts until June 8th. Monkeypox Outside of Africa Last week, the World Health Organization reported a monkeypox outbreak

AMC Remembers 9/11 Twenty Years Later

A search and rescue dog and its handler at Ground Zero
My memories of 9/11 match those represented at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. For me, the most poignant object displayed at the museum is an art installation entitled “Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning.” Each blue square in the artwork is a different shade, one for each life lost