COLUMBIA, S.C. — Before you can fight a disease, you have to identify the foe. For that, you need someone like Guillermo Rimoldi.
Recently named the head of the histopathology section of the Veterinary Diagnostic Center (CVDC), a unit of Clemson University Livestock Poultry Health in Columbia, Rimoldi is responsible for examining tissue samples of animals to diagnose potential diseases.
The CVDC is on the front line in the war against animal diseases as dangerous as rabies and as potentially devastating as avian influenza.
“What we do in the diagnostic lab is detect problems so producers and farmers can treat. . .