In the News
October 23, 2026
An insect-driven disease that causes high mortality in white-tailed deer, and mimics the symptoms of foot and mouth disease in cattle, is still rare in New York state, but the warming climate may increase its future spread....
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October 05, 2026
Cornell's Zoo and Wildlife Society (ZAWS) shares about their first event of the semester, featuring five incredible panelists, Drs. Steven Osofsky, Noha Abou-Madi, Cynthia Hopf-Dennis, Jan Lovy, and Jennifer Bloodgood.
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September 11, 2026
Over the summer, I had the exciting opportunity to extern with Michigan’s State Wildlife Pathologist. The pathologist, state wildlife veterinarian, and numerous biologists and conservation officers all work for the Department of Natural Resources...
August 31, 2026
Chronic wasting disease, a neurodegenerative disease of white-tailed deer, continues to spread across North America. Dr. Chandika Rani Ganesh Babu, a 2026 Yang Postdoctoral Fellow in Wildlife Health, seeks to uncover the genetic and molecular mechanisms that influence susceptibility to CWD.
August 10, 2026
The 2026 cohort of Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellows in Wildlife Health is poised to restore mangrove ecosystems in the Galápagos, improve chronic waste disease surveillance, and protect the pollinators that underpin global food systems.
June 15, 2026
Cornell researchers are investigating whether wildfire smoke may also be carrying chronic wasting disease—the neurological illness, caused by misfolded proteins called prions, that afflicts members of the deer family.
June 11, 2026
A flesh‑eating fly thought eradicated decades ago has been found in Texas, its first return to the United States in generations.
April 22, 2026
Four sperm whales that stranded separately on southeastern U.S. coastlines between 2020-22 were emaciated and malnourished, with ingested fishing gear and marine debris found in two of them, according to a new study that compared the four cases....
March 17, 2026
Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an extra-close eye on California’s northern elephant seals...
March 11, 2026
On Feb. 25, the Animal Health Diagnostic Center hosted a chronic wasting disease lecture and wet lab for the College of Veterinary Medicine community, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets....