#15: The Story of an Emerging Wildlife Virus Featuring the Pathologist on the Frontlines, Dr. David Needle

Anytime a wildlife disease story gets covered in mainstream news media, we get excited!  In January 2022, a news story about Skunk Adenovirus 1 causing mortality in porcupines caught our attention.  In this episode, we chat with Dr. David Needle, senior pathologist at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and the first person to diagnose Skunk Adenovirus 1 in the U.S. Since then, he’s been studying this emerging wildlife disease as it keeps popping up in different species.

 

Links!

Check out the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Lab:

https://colsa.unh.edu/new-hampshire-veterinary-diagnostic-laboratory

 

Here’s that awesome book that Dr. Needle mentions:

 

The North American Porcupine by Uldis Roze (second edition) -https://www.buteobooks.com/product/c517.html

 

News Stories about Skunk Adenovirus: 

 

https://apnews.com/article/science-health-maine-wildlife-harbors-0e8fea831c4edfbd8fe69effd6ea4269

 

https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2018/12/unh-veterinary-pathologist-identifies-first-case-skunk-adenovirus-1-us-third-world

 

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