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What did the COVID shutdowns teach us about public health policy?

May 29, 2025 / General News

In the five years since schools and businesses across the globe shut down in an effort to slow viral transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic, heated debate and reverberating impacts have changed the public health landscape. Becky…
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Illinois Team Tackles Mysterious Disease Afflicting Wild and Captive Snakes

April 12, 2017 / General News

Biologists and veterinarians across the central and eastern United States are calling on researchers at the University of Illinois to help them identify, understand and potentially treat snake fungal disease, a baffling affliction affecting more…
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Illinois Part of New Center Focused on Vector-Borne Disease

February 19, 2017 / Pathobiology

Illinois research to address regional health concerns The University of Illinois is among a consortium of Midwestern universities in a new federally funded center created to fight diseases spread by insect vectors, especially mosquitoes and…
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Study Links Fetal and Newborn Dolphin Deaths to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

April 12, 2016 / Research News

Scientists have finalized a five-year study of newborn and fetal dolphins found stranded on beaches in the northern Gulf of Mexico between 2010 and 2013. Their study, reported in the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms,…
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Researchers Link Dolphin Deaths to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

May 20, 2015 / Research News

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Dolphins found stranded on Gulf of Mexico beaches following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill were much more likely to have severe lung and adrenal gland damage “consistent with petroleum product exposure”…
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Team Studies Immune Response of Asian Elephants Infected with a Human Disease

July 16, 2014 / Research News

Findings suggest a faster and more reliable way to diagnose TB in captive elephants Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the organism that causes tuberculosis in humans, also afflicts Asian (and occasionally other) elephants. Diagnosing and treating elephants with…
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What did the COVID shutdowns teach us about public health policy?

Illinois Team Tackles Mysterious Disease Afflicting Wild and Captive Snakes

Illinois Part of New Center Focused on Vector-Borne Disease

Study Links Fetal and Newborn Dolphin Deaths to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Researchers Link Dolphin Deaths to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Team Studies Immune Response of Asian Elephants Infected with a Human Disease

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What did the COVID shutdowns teach us about public health policy?

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