We have an updating feed at the top that scrolls the top five animal stories. There’s also information about hot topics like avian influenza.

It lists reportable diseases by state and has pictures of different animal diseases.

Even the human medical community has been visiting this part of the site.

If I needed to clean something and I was dealing with a specific disease, I could rapidly screen disinfectants. It even tells me where I can order from.

Our goal is to keep expanding the resources to help people meet animal and human emergencies.

Let’s say I’m in Carroll County and I needed a backhoe. I could select backhoe, then click, and the database gives me a list of people in Carroll County who’ve volunteered their backhoes in case...