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Some animals have diabetes but there are no veterinary drugs to counter their diabetes.
The FDA knew veterinarians were using human-labeled drugs to treat the diabetes and respiratory infections in dogs, cats, horses, and cattle. Though the use of human-labeled drugs on animals had no adverse impact on public health, the action was illegal because of the label on the bottle. The FDA has not yet approved sufficient number of drugs to treat all the diseases in different animal species. People have adverse reactions to drugs and, at times, so do animals. This feature lists the drugs by generic name showing statistics for all the adverse drug reaction reports submitted to the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine.