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Detection and monitoring of disease in wild fish populations by state and federal agencies alongside angler observation.
A sea lion on Kangaroo Island and a dolphin found dead at Goolwa are Australia's first confirmed H5N1 cases in marine mammals. How either animal caught the virus is still an inference.
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Penn State researchers ran a commercial DNA parasite panel against the standard microscope test in wild canids such as coyotes and foxes. The tapeworm that carries the human risk is also the one a microscope struggles to name.
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Three infected wild birds and a mammal death on the Australian mainland leave New Zealand's agencies with no eradication option, so the work becomes early detection and vaccinating five intensively managed species.
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Government reports have the virus circulating in resident birds. Overseas, the opening pass killed 25% to 76% of breeding-age adults in the worst-hit species, and recovery ran to decades.
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Whole-genome sequencing of brown bullheads from Lake Memphremagog found tumors that are clones of each other, not of their hosts. It is the fourth transmissible cancer known.
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