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KUNC-NPR: Disease-Bearing Ticks Are Spreading, But Mountain West Still Relatively Safe
“One of the reasons it’s important to keep doing this kind of study is that the distribution of ticks and the pathogens they transmit is changing really quickly,” said Greg Ebel, who specializes in tick-borne and infectious diseases at Colorado State University and wasn’t involved in the study.
Westfair Online: Global Lyme Alliance adds five to its Scientific Advisory Board
The new board members include John Belisle, professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State University, whose work focuses on the physiology of bacterial pathogens and how they trigger metabolic responses in the human host.
Chipley Bugle: Ancient virus may have given mammals the edge during dinosaur extinction era
Published in PLOS Pathogens: "Divergent bornaviruses from Australian carpet pythons with neurological disease date the origin of extant Bornaviridae prior to the end-Cretaceous extinction." Mark Stenglein, Ph.D., a veterinary microbiologist at Colorado State University, was responsible for assembling the virus so that it could be analyzed in more detail.
Coloradoan: Friends, family remember beloved CSU professor who started world-renowned lab
As John Spencer looked out at the friends, family, colleagues, former students and rec league soccer players gathered at a local sports bar Thursday to toast to Ian Orme, he knew one thing: "He would have loved this... He had a big heart. He cared about everybody.”
Science News: Leprosy lurks in armadillos in Brazil’s Amazon
Brazilians who hunt or eat armadillos are at a higher risk of catching leprosy than people who don’t interact with the animals, a new study finds.
Quartz: Armadillos are making Brazil’s leprosy problem worse
“Armadillos are kind of a delicacy—think about it like lobster,” says John Spencer, an immunologist who has researched leprosy for years at Colorado State University and led the study.
New evidence that wild armadillos spread leprosy to humans
An international team of researchers has found that human contact with wild armadillos has contributed to extremely high infection rates of a pathogen that can cause leprosy.
Bovine Veterinarian: Chronic Wasting Disease: Don’t Panic, but Remain Vigilant
John Maday: A new report from the American Cervid Alliance (ACA), titled “Current Scientific Knowledge about CWD,” compiles research results and CWD trends, and the authors suggest the problem might be less severe than commonly believed.