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Bloodgood with mallard duck testing for for avian flu.

At Cornell University’s Wildlife Health Lab, scientists work with New York State to test and identify cases of bird flu among animals in Central New York. Interviewed as an expert in the field, Dr. Jennifer Bloodgood speaks on the latest findings.

Most pandemics in the past century were sparked by a pathogen jumping from animals to humans. This moment of zoonotic spillover is the focus of a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Cornell’s Raina Plowright.
Talk title overlayed over penguins

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In this eCornell keynote, Drs. Amandine Gamble and Marie Bouilloud share their recent fieldwork experiences in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions to help illustrate how wildlife health is connected to human activity, even thousands of miles away.
Fishermen cast their nets in the Amazon River

Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team has found.
Dr. Steve Osofsky, director of the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, in northern Botswana. Photo provided by Dr. Osofsky

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Dr. Steve Osofsky, director of the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, reflects on a transformative year, and looks forward to leading the way in shaping how the center can help tilt the scales back toward the type of environmental stewardship we ourselves need to survive as a species.
Birthing Planetary Health talk by Steve Osofsky

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Professor Steve Osofsky was invited to give the keynote address, “Birthing Planetary Health: A Midwife’s Tale,” at the Sustainable Cornell Summit 2024.
Bat hanging upside down

A new combination of climate and habitat crises, along with immune system stress, is driving more bat-borne viruses to afflict us. Cornell's Dr. Raina Plowright discusses how any public-­health intervention to prevent future pandemics will need to tackle the whole environmental tapestry. 
mosquito landed on human skin

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College of Veterinary Medicine faculty, in partnership with the University of Pretoria in South Africa, have received an NIH P20 grant to establish the Center for Transformative Infectious Disease Research on Climate, Health and Equity in a Changing Environment (C-CHANGE).
Gaydos performing a health check on a roaming dog following a sampling session at the Faridpur field site (Photo: Ashok Kumar Biswas)

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Growing up, I couldn’t wait for the moment evening turned to dusk and the dancing silhouettes of bats began to fill the night sky. This love of bats grew with me, expanding as I could better understand the science behind what made bats so unique....