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AMA EdHub (Aug. 3) – Members of the Wildlife Epidemiology Laboratory turtle surveillance team were featured in a video released by the American Medical Association that explores what animal surveillance looks like on the ground…
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ciLiving (WCIA-TV; Aug. 4) – Dr. Lauren Forsythe plays many roles at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital, where the variety of patient species and the lack of commercial medications formulated to meet their…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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