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PRO/AH/EDR> Novel porcupine fungal disease – USA: (ME, MA, NH)
Other Animal Disease -- United StatesA debilitating, often fatal fungal disease has been discovered in wild North American porcupines in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, according to the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire (UNH).UNH pathologists found that 12 wild porcupines taken to wildlife rehabilitators in Maine and Massachusetts with what appeared to be mange were actually infected with a disease caused by a common fungal organism found in Read more [...]
