Steven Rinella talks with Krysten Schuler, a wildlife disease ecologist at Cornell University’s Wildlife Health Lab.
Topics discussed: Watch our behind-the-scenes footage from Cornell’s necropsy lab; the fungus that affects salamanders; deer ticks carrying blood containing prions; trying to figure out why things die; mange; brain worm; the infection cycle of when worm larvae in deer poop is eaten by a snail, that then gets eaten by a moose; insect contamination on raw produce; liver flukes–parasites that look like the sidecar of a liver; found dead; winter tick; lead in birds and incinerating fisher liver to test level amounts; CWD surveillance; making CWD smash burgers for your friends who say they don’t care; hemorrhagic diseases and floating in ponds; the time when Steve defended his family from a “rabid” squirrel; the rabid beaver that bit five people; how raccoons seem to like carcasses with diabetes; nasal bots; and more.
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