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Dr Schuler in the the Hearing room in DC Friday, June 28, 2019

Dr. Schuler goes to Washington

Dr. Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist with the New York State Wildlife Health Program, testified before the U.S. House Natural Resource Committee – Oversight Subcommittee on June 25. The topic was chronic wasting disease (CWD...

Category: In the News
Technician holding histo slides Monday, June 17, 2019

Behind the Diagnosis Curtain: Histopathology

Solving the mystery of wildlife mortality with diagnostics When the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab investigates mortalities in wildlife, our specially trained pathologists use diagnostic tools to crack the case . Our pathologists are...

Category: Wildlife 411
juvenile Virginia opossum Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Weird & Wonderful Wildlife - The Opossum

The Virginia opossum, or North American opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is the only marsupial species in North America – that’s right, like the kangaroo or koala bears of Australia, opossums raise bumblebee sized babies in a pouch for...

Category: Wildlife 411
Ring-necked snake Friday, April 12, 2019

Everything you wanted to know about Snake Fungal Disease but were afraid to ask

What is Snake Fungal Disease? Snake Fungal Disease (SFD) is caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola and it poses a significant threat to wild snakes in the eastern United States. First discovered in 2006 in a declining New...

Category: In the News
close up image of bald eagle beak Tuesday, March 19, 2019

What's a necropsy? The science behind this valuable diagnostic tool

The word “autopsy” comes from the roots autos (“self”) and opsis (a sight, or seeing with one’s own eyes)- so an autopsy is the examination of a body after death by someone of like species- another human.  So what do you call the post-...

Category: In the News
Desert tortoise digging a burrow Thursday, March 14, 2019

How does math help restore wildlife communities? Try StallPOPd, our new interactive software app to Stall Growth of a Human Subsidized Predator and find out!

Professionals who manage animals regularly face challenging decisions Veterinarians, zoo personnel, biologists, scientists, and resource managers sometimes share the professional duty to dispatch animals.  In the case of resource...

Category: In the News
white-tailed doe Thursday, February 21, 2019

Prion Hypothesis for CWD: An Examination of the Evidence

As a wildlife disease ecologist, I’ve been asked my opinion on the scientific support for prions as the agent of chronic wasting disease (CWD). I have been studying CWD for two decades. The spiroplasma (bacteria) theory1 has been around...

Category: In the News
California condors Thursday, January 10, 2019

What’s math got do with wildlife restoration? Try StaPOPd, our new interactive software app for Stable Population Dynamics and find out!

Understanding Reintroduction Reintroduction of plants and animals by wildlife professionals into previously depopulated habitats is used to restore ecosystem function or maintain biodiversity.  bison-1581895.jpg...

Category: In the News
White-tailed deer in snow Monday, November 19, 2018

Tips for Safe Handling and Processing Venison

Correctly handling your deer harvest can help keep you and your family safe when consuming venison. This is important not only from a food safety standpoint, but for diseases and toxins as well. Our goal is to help keep hunters and meat...

Category: Wildlife 411
Compilation of students from CWHL Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Where are they now?

Since the wildlife health program first started in 2011, we have had many students come through our (virtual) doors- over 60 at last count. Our students have ranged from high school to post PhD/DVM, and they all come with unique...

Category: Wildlife 411
Eastern cottontail rabbit Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Positive Case of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease in OH

The Cornell Wildlife Health Lab received a message today from the National Wildlife Health Center (see below) that they have recently confirmed a case of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD) in a domestic rabbit in Ohio. This disease is rare...

Category: Disease Watch
white-tailed doe in field Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Citizen Science and Hunter Surveillance

Hunters spend plenty of time out in the woods so they are great resources for spotting something abnormal or out-of-place with wildlife. As the various hunting seasons are happening now or soon approaching, extra eyes in the field are...

Category: Wildlife 411
inside the freezer Thursday, September 20, 2018

What’s in YOUR freezer?

Most of us have forgotten bags of vegetables and mystery meat “stuffs” hanging out in our freezers. Here at the CWHL we also have freezers full strange things, but we won’t be using them for dinner anytime soon. When the New York State...

Category: In the News
WHP Annual Report Thumbnail 2017-2018 Tuesday, September 11, 2018

New York State Wildlife Health Program Annual Report

Interested in what the NYS Wildlife Health Program did in the last year? Check out some of our new research projects and catch up on some of the continuing ones, see what kind of surveillance we are doing and what we are finding,...

Category: Wildlife 411
raccoon Friday, August 24, 2018

Is the Raccoon Zombie Apocalypse Upon Us? Nope

With the uptick in reports of raccoons acting strangely in urban areas, people are claiming some raccoon zombie apocalypse is imminent – it’s not. Reports like this “'Zombie-like' virus killing raccoons in NYC's Central Park” fuel the...

Category: Wildlife 411
 in the field releasing eastern hellbender salamanders Thursday, August 23, 2018

What did you do on your summer vacation?

Over the years, our veterinary students have been able to partake of some pretty unusual field projects during the summer. They have collared black bears with USGS, tracked timber rattlesnakes with the New York State DEC, investigated ...

Category: Wildlife 411
Double-crested_Cormorants_Nesting Thursday, August 23, 2018

Positive Cases of Avian Paramyxovirus in New York

Update September 21,2018 The CWHL has confirmed several cases of Avian Paramyxovirus 1 in double-crested cormorants in New York. The birds have come in from  a wide geographic area, from St. Lawrence to Erie County, along the southern...

Category: Disease Watch
white-tailed buck Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Hunter Harvest CWD Testing Available at CWHL - UPDATE - List of non-NYS labs with CWD testing added!

Hunting season is approaching and the Animal Health Diagnostic Center is accepting hunter-harvested submissions for CWD testing for $65 per sample (deer head).  Only NYS harvested submissions are accepted at the AHDC, so if you...

Category: Wildlife 411
Hemidactylium scutatum, the four-toed Salamander Monday, August 6, 2018

Saving the Unseen - eDNA: A new approach in conservation and surveillance for hard to find species

The desire to protect hard-to-find species from extinction is a challenge faced by many global conservation organizations. Many threatened or endangered species can be extremely difficult to identify in their natural environments due to...

Category: In the News
Wood frog; photo by Melissa Fadden Tuesday, July 24, 2018

The Curious Case of Tadpole Mortality

One of the harbingers of spring that many people recognize is the sound of spring peepers calling from their wetlands for mates. Shortly thereafter, every still pool of water is laden with gelatinous egg masses, followed closely in time...

Category: Case Files
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