Infectious Diseases

According to John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine, it’s not surprising that SARS-CoV-2 infection generates robust immunity, including protection from disease.

Louise Moncla’s lab at the School of Veterinary Medicine is developing ways to scan genetic blueprints of past outbreaks for signatures of a virus that can jump between different animal species.

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues are developing and testing a vaccine tailored to the current bird flu strain based on their previous 20-subtype mRNA flu vaccine.

A study co-authored by Cynthia Otto of the School of Veterinary Medicine finds that dogs can be trained to detect chronic wasting disease in deer feces.

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses the highly contagious avian flu ravaging the globe and how outbreaks in some mammals are a cause for concern.

A study by Amritha Mallikarjun of the School of Veterinary Medicine and colleagues finds that dogs can detect a deadly prion disease by smelling deer dung.

Stephen Cole of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that there’s been an uptick in canine influenza over the last month and recommends keeping dogs away from other dogs.

Studies from the Veterinary School of Medicine’s Working Dog Center have found that dogs can determine if a deer or elk has chronic wasting disease by sniffing the animal’s scat.

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine says that mRNA vaccines can be mass-produced faster than normal, in as little as three months.