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Like most countries, the U.S. has no comprehensive national system for monitoring disease in companion animals — which leaves pets Read More
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The outbreak may be the first ever documented in marine mammals.Read More
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A fatal fungal disease has devastated the world’s amphibians. But the fungus has a vulnerability: It cannot tolerate heat.Read More