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Questions-and cases-mount in seal disease outbreak
A mysterious disease that's killed scores of ringed seals off the Alaskan coast since the summer may also be infecting other species of Arctic marine…
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Government coordinates national response to fatal bat disease
The Interior Department's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in May unveiled a national management plan addressing the threat posed by white-nose…
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Zoo veterinarians, behind the scenes and in the field
For zoo veterinarians, their day-to-day work can encompass thousands of individual animals and a multitude of species
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Marine mammals succumbing to dual-parasite infections
A National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases study identified a link between severe illness and co-infection with Sarcocystis neurona and…
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Baylisascaris monograph available from USGS
Baylisascaris monograph was recently published through the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Flu virus identified in "unusual" New England seal deaths
NOAA is stepping up an investigation into 146 harbor seal deaths along the New England coast after influenza A virus was identified in five of the…
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Rabies variant absent as Arizona's infections decline
A bat-associated rabies virus variant that spread among northern Arizona's terrestrial wildlife in previous years was not found in those animals in…
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Tactics analyzed in fighting remaining brucellosis infections
Lingering cases connected with wildlife exposure
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Idaho finds plague in domestic cats
The Idaho Division of Public Health identified Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, in six domestic cats in mid-2016.