Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

01/02/2026

Happy New Year and welcome to 2026! 🎉 Are you getting ready to head to ? Our team is gearing up to make the trip to Orlando in just two short weeks. If you'll be there, please save a spot for us in your schedule. Visit booth 3120 in the exhibit hall to say hello, win some fun giveaways, and ask us questions.

12/29/2025

Our updated fees will take effect on January 1. For more info and to preview the new fee schedule, please visit our website. ⬇

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12/22/2025

✨🔔'Tis the season for holiday hours!🔔✨ We will only be closed on December 25 and January 1, but we will have shortened hours December 26 - January 2. Please visit our website for our detailed schedule and additional information, including hours for our Clinical Pathology section located at the Veterinary Medical Center. We're wishing all of you happy and healthy holidays!

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11/26/2025

Another holiday is here! We will be closed on Thursday, November 27, and open for limited hours on Friday, November 28. As a reminder, we are only closed on those holidays when commercial delivery services aren't bringing us samples. Please check our website for details on our year-end holiday schedule. ⬇

Have a safe and happy holiday! 🦃🍽🍂

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11/14/2025

We are exceptionally proud of our team who have taken their dedication and work ethic to a whole new level over the past three and a half years. Over the past two years in particular, the workload demands due to the surge in avian influenza testing have meant many late nights, weekends, and holidays spent at the Laboratory. And yet our commitment to animal health stakeholders and producers is unwavering. Our entire team is committed to our mission and response efforts.

When highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, first appeared in U.S. dairy cattle, it shocked the scientific community. The virus, long associated with birds, had crossed a species barrier no one anticipated. Yet in Michigan, the response framework was already underway. In the inner circle of tha...