Oral and Poster Abstracts

The World Buiatrics Congress (WBC) has a long tradition. Following the initiative meeting held in Hannover
(Germany) in 1960, the World Association for Buiatrics was founded at the 2 nd International Congress on
Cattle Diseases in Vienna in May, 1962. From this time onwards the Biennial World Buiatrics Congresses
were held in different countries of the world, involving all continents.
It is a great honour for Hungary to organise the 25 th Jubilee Congress of the World Association for Buiatrics
particularly because this is the first time the WBC is held in a Middle European country.
Since the foundation of the world association there have been tremendous developments in the practice of
bovine medicine and greater emphasis was laid on issues like global control of infectious diseases, metabolic
disorders caused by malnutrition, herd health management, animal welfare, food safety, environmental
protection – mentioning only the most important ones. It’s originating from our human nature that we often
tend to overemphasize the importance of one of the above mentioned areas at the expense of the others,
forgetting to maintain the healthy balance between them. This attitude appears in the relation of individual
bovine medicine and bovine herd health management. Our profession requires to treat animals individually
and to protect their life also on a herd level. We have to find the reasonable balance between individual
treatments and herd-level preventive measures. We do hope that the 25 th Jubilee Congress will help us to find
that in our practice.
The goal of the World Association for Buiatrics is to disseminate scientific and practical knowledge on
ruminant medicine, management, genetics, production and disease control. The congress will serve as a
platform for scientists from universities and research institutes, for practitioners working with dairy and beef
cattle and other ruminants, consultants, residents, post-docs, PhD and graduate students of veterinary
medicine and animal science in order to provide continuing education for cattle veterinarians worldwide
every two years.
We are very proud to mention that this year an outstanding number of 1377 abstracts have been submitted for
the XXV Jubilee World Buiatrics Congress. Until now, the highest number of abstracts (a bit over 1,000) was
submitted for the Nice congress in 2006.
At this year’s Budapest congress 408 of 1,377 abstracts have been selected for oral presentations by our
international scientific committee. At the same time the majority of the poster presentations (n=860) have
been accepted by our national organising committee. In cases of poster abstracts there was a very important
selection criteria namely to give possibilities to the author(s) from all over the world to take part in the
congress, to experience and practice the mode and level of presentations and to get more familiar with the
requirements. The oral and poster presentations will be published in the Supplement II of the Hungarian
Veterinary Journal (Magyar Állatorvosok Lapja) founded by Prof. B. Nádaskay in 1878.
Notice to Readers
PREFACE
Prof. Ottó Szenci Prof. Endre Brydl
President of the Organising President of the Scientific
Committee Committee
Oral and poster abstracts published in the Hungarian Veterinary Journal are not peer-reviewed or referred. All statements, opinions
and conclusions contained in abstracts in the Hungarian Veterinary Journal are there of the author(s), and are not necessarily those of
the National and International Scientific Committees.