Low level enzootic disease was recognized in several wild species during this period, including a small focus of rabies in raccoons in Florida. Phylogenetic analysis of the virus transmitted by rabid raccoons and reconstruction of the early history of raccoon rabies in the United States suggests th...
* There have been cases this year in Florida of leptospirosis including at least 2 cases in Orlando. Canine Distemper: Canine distemper is a viral disease that affects animals in the families Canidae (dogs, wolves, foxes, etc.), Mustelidae (ferrets, weasels, otters, etc.), Mephitidae (skun...
Physical and Health Assessment of a Population of Raccoon (Procyon lotor) in Northeastern Florida. Master Thesis, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA, 2006. [Google Scholar] Pozio, E. Factors affecting the flow among domestic, synanthropic and sylvatic cycles of Trichinella. Vet....
Welcome back to Florida Stories, a new column where staff writer Allie Conti will be telling us some of the tales she’s accumulated in her decades of living in the Sunshine State. Right after college I lived in a house that my mother liked to call “the Locker Room.” It was full of...