Infectious diseases are the single biggest threat to keeping shelter animals healthy during their shelter stay. Data — boring facts, figures and statistics — is the best tool you have for getting on top of disease outbreaks.

Dr. Jan Scarlett, DVM, MPH, PhD, Director of Maddie’s^® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University, shared the secrets of effective use of data to fight shelter disease at the 2012 ASPCA/Maddie’s^® Shelter Medicine Conference 2012. View the video of the presentation by clicking on the image below, or here.