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WGN-TV (Feb. 25) – Veterinary virologists with the University of Illinois recently confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in a dog in Illinois who was exposed to an infected human during the New Year’s holiday….
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WCIA-TV News (Feb. 16) – Dr. Leyi Wang, veterinary virologist, talks about the role he and the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have played in diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 in zoo animals from binturongs to Malayan tigers. https://www.wcia.com/news/u-of-i-tests-animals-across-the-country-for-covid/ Also…
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News-Gazette (Feb. 15) – Dr. Krista Keller, head of the zoological companion animal service, teamed up with Beckman Institute to develop protocols for safely anesthetizing and performing MRIs on bearded dragons, the most popular pet…
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ciLiving (WCIA-TV; Feb. 9) – Third-year veterinary students Cythia Tellez and Alexis Davidson introduce one of the Wildlife Medical Clinic’s ambassador animals, Ruby, the red-tailed hawk. https://www.wcia.com/ciliving-tv/meet-ruby-the-red-tailed-hawk/

Big Picture Science (February 7) – Dr. Yvette Johnson-Walker was a guest on an episode focused on the phenomenon in which the expertise of scientists is questioned by non-experts who claim they’ve done their own…
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ciLiving (WCIA-TV; Feb. 3) – Dr. Krista Keller, head of the zoological medicine service at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, talked about the newly circulating Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus and what rabbit owners can do to…
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ciLiving (WCIA-TV; Feb. 1) – Dr. Sam Sander, director of the Wildlife Medical Clinic, and Becky Berton, a veterinary student volunteer, talk about the impact of the clinic on the community, volunteers, and local wildlife.

News-Gazette (Jan. 27) – The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine has launched a series of vaccination clinics to immunize pet rabbits against a deadly variant of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus before spring, when…
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Farm Week (Jan. 17) – Dr. Rick Fredrickson, veterinarian and director of the University of Illinois Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, recently received the APHIS 2021 administrator’s award. In this interview, he describes the past two years…
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WILL-AM (Urbana, Ill.; Jan. 12) – Dr. Rebecca Smith, an assistant professor of epidemiology, said “We really encourage people to be cautious over the next few weeks.” The University of Illinois is expecting a surge…
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