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Awareness of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Saves Lives

Katherine E Kerlin — March 06, 2025 - 8:57am

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by biting ticks to humans and dogs. Found on every continent except Antarctica, the infectious disease has been spreading since the early 2000s, most notably in Mexico and Brazil. Of the cases reported, more than half of infected people and dogs die.

A paper led by the University of California, Davis, highlights one of the most effective but often missing solutions to surviving this preventable, deadly disease: awareness. Most fatal cases stem from delays in diagnosis and treatment.

Endangered Amargosa Voles Begin to Repopulate Desert Habitat

Katherine E Kerlin — September 06, 2022 - 2:38pm

�ٺ��Ƶ wildlife cameras revealed pups born to endangered Amargosa voles that were reintroduced to a Shoshone marsh. This indicates the voles are beginning to repopulate their native habitat after restoration efforts.

Captive-bred Amargosa voles preparing to head back to the wild

IET WebDev — April 10, 2015 - 10:45am

Less than a year after the �ٺ��Ƶ School of Veterinary Medicine began a captive breeding program, more than two dozen Amargosa voles are preparing to rejoin their cousins in the wild. They are the first captive-bred group to be released and offer hope of rebuilding the population of one of the most endangered mammals in North America.

Loss of habitat, drought and climate change brought this subspecies of the California vole to near extinction, leaving only a few hundred clinging to existence in rare marshes of the Mojave Desert.