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Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health

Bringing One Health to Life at the 2025 Wildlife Disease Association Conference

November 06, 2025
As a veterinary student passionate about wildlife health, One Health, and infectious disease ecology, this experience was a turning point....
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To Catch a Tiger by its Tale: How Health May Be Threatening the Tigers of the Tropics

March 03, 2018 by Martin Gilbert
Given their near supernatural reputation, it can be hard to distinguish the truth of the tiger from its mythology....