Santa’s reindeer are healthy and clear to hit the skies this Christmas Eve after receiving a clean bill of health from the president of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). Theodore Cohn DVN,AVMA president and official veterinarian of the North Pole, returned from the North Pole last week after performing a health check-up on all nine of Santa’s reindeer, according to the AVMA. Just like veterinarians who perform regular examinations and preventive care to keep companion animals healthy, Cohn performs annual check-ups on Santa’s reindeer to make sure they are healthy enough to fly on Christmas Eve. As a part of the reindeers annual exam, Cohn checked the animals to make sure they are healthy and disease-free so that they won’t transmit diseases such as brucellosis, tuberculosis and chronic wasting disease to other animals. “It’s important that they don’t have any diseases they could give to other animals during their trip around the world, “Cohn Said in a news release.” “They also need to be healthy, so they’re less likely to catch any diseases themselves on that long flight.” Cohn filled out health certificates for all of the reindeer to make sure that Santa can legally fly them into the countries around the world and prevent any unnecessary delays. “The last thing we want is Santa getting stopped at a border, right?” Cohn Said.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:28:45 +0000
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