This news item is about: Veterinary students from 30 universities across the US, Canada, and Mexico are attending the 10th annual Smith-Kilborne program, designed to acquaint veterinary students with foreign animal diseases that can potentially threaten domestic animals. The program began May 29 and will conclude June 6. The Smith-Kilborne program, annually hosted by Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Plum Island Animal Diseases Center in New York’s Long Island, was founded by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in honor of its two former scientists who discovered the transmission method for Texas cattle fever.