CBS News Chicago (Aug. 2) – Monkeypox continues to spread across the Chicago area at an alarming rate. Dr. Becky Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joins CBS 2’s Brad Edwards with some… Read More >
Chicago Tribune (with audio; July 26) – A coyote kept in a cage at a Cook County forest preserve will get a larger and better-equipped enclosure in response to protests over the animal’s living conditions…. Read More >
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that funding for the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-borne Disease will be renewed for another 5 years. Professors Susan Paskewitz and Lyric Bartholomay co-direct the… Read More >
This message will appear in the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association Bulletin. Between 2002 and 2012, our college went without a boarded veterinary neurologist. But our steady growth since Dr. Devon Hague joined the faculty 10… Read More >
ciLiving (WCIA-TV; July ) – Dr. Sam Sander, director of the University of Illinois Wildlife Medical Clinic, and Brianna Huff shared healthy ways to feed wildlife with materials you already have at home. https://www.wcia.com/ciliving-tv/ciliving-stories/ciliving/build-your-own-bird-feeders-with-the-wildlife-medical-clinic/
WCIA-TV News (July 21) – “Humans… we’re good at a lot of things but finding turtles is not necessarily one of them,” said Dr. Matt Allender, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois’ Veterinary… Read More >
Chicago Health (July 20) – Spread by tick bites, Lyme disease cases are rising in the Chicago area. Changing weather patterns mean ticks are showing up earlier than usual, hanging around later into the year… Read More >
WCIA-TV News (July 8) – Students and professors teamed up at the University of Illinois to create an easy-to-use website for pork farmers to educate themselves on biosecurity. They say knowing more about biosecurity will… Read More >
Carbondale Reporter (July 11) – In recognition of her outstanding contributions to veterinary public health, Dr. Kate Varela (DVM IL ’12) received the CDC’s 2022 James H. Steele Veterinary Public Health Award. https://carbondalereporter.com/stories/628568727-kate-varela-honored-with-cdc-steele-award
ciLiving (WCIA-TV; July 7) – Interdisciplinary researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign performed MRI scans on bearded dragons to… Read More >
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