In the News

Discover Magazine (Nov. 14) – Even though humans are pretty distant relatives of cats and dogs, we can still catch diseases from them simply because of how much time we spend together. “We have this…
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WICS-TV News (Nov. 11) – The Wildlife Medical Clinic at Illinois performed an interesting blood transfusion this week, giving blood from an owl to a ring-necked duck suffering from lead toxicity was highly anemic (low…
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CNN (Atlanta, Nov. 5) – A young dog is continuing to recover after being rescued from a freezing Champaign lake over the weekend. A passerby spotted the dog floating in a crate, waded in to…
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ciLiving (WCIA-TV; Nov 1) – Dr. Catherine Foreman-Hesterberg, an equine veterinarian working out of the college’s clinic in Farmer City, sees a wide variety of animal species for spinal adjustments to improve their movement and…
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Science Daily (Nov. 4) – Researchers report they have developed a new technique that uses light to control the lifetime of a protein inside the cell. This method will allow scientists to better observe how…
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WCIA-TV News (October 28) – University of Illinois police are thanking emergency veterinarians at the College of Veterinary Medicine for helping their K-9 officer, Chewy, hurt during training when a table fell on his lower…
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Politico (Oct. 28) –  “I do think that we’ve probably not funded this at the level that it should’ve been funded at historically and, probably, even now,” said Dr. Dan Rock, who left USDA after…
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Pork (Oct. 29) – In the wake of a recall of ASF-infected pork products, Dr. Dan Rock, professor in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Illinois, said, “Most viruses demonstrate some degree of…
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Daily Herald (Oct. 17) – A team of veterinarians at the University of Illinois launched an online training program this week, warning that we need to examine how opioids are prescribed for dogs. Opioids, specifically…
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Paw Report (WEIU-TV; Oct. 14) – Dr. Sara Reich, formerly medical director of the University of Illinois Wildlife Clinic, talks about lizard husbandry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8KIAGCtzZ4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1stqHEbF7VW1yeoleK8xbkrOWcoVXz3BRwgfV9628pJDJ09BdIt6-5T-8