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Think you need to be a master brewer or ever have brewed at all to enter the Staff Brewing Competition? Think again!

Before my first year, Id never brewed a beer, or even liked beer all that much, said Carlos Barahona, systems architect in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy. Seeing the process and learning what makes beers different helped me find those I like.

And, guess what? Barahona and his Beer Pressure teammates, Eri Furukawa and Joe Schneider, earned the Judges Choice award for best pale ale last year! Schneider is an admissions recruitment specialist in the School of Law. Furukawa worked at the School of Law at the time of last year's competition, but has since moved to the School of Veterinary Medicine where she is an external relations specialist. They are teaming up again this year.

Beyond the brewing, Barahona said, The competition and the event itself introduced me to a lot of staff around campus that I never would have interacted with, and has built friendships with others I knew only professionally before.

Now, as an organizer, hes recruiting teams for the 2020 competition. In addition, tickets are on sale for the tasting event to be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 24.

The competition is for UC Davis affiliates only from the Davis or Sacramento campuses or outlying locations while the tasting event is open to all (minimum age 21).

This years brewing categories are porter,hazy NEIPA (New England India pale ale) and cider. Another one of the organizers, Lina Layiktez, director of Conference and Event Services, said ciders are a tasters favorite: They are really easy to drink, and for people who dont really like beer, they are a nice option that allows them to participate in the event along with a significant other or friends who do love beer.

Read more about the 2020 brewing categories.

Admission to the tasting event will include a souvenir glass and up to 24 2-ounce samples. Tasters will be invited to vote for the Peoples Choice Award.

Teams must comprise at least two people and no more than six. Each participant can be on one or two teams (but, if youre on two teams, they must brew different styles). Each style is limited to 15 teams, and each team can submit one or two brews.

To be eligible for awards, competitors must attend the tasting event and serve their brews. Brewers are advised to plan accordingly when figuring how mush beer or cider to make.

The team fee is $10 per brewing submission. Register here by March 24.

Team fees do not include the per person entry fee for the tasting and event. Each team member must register separately at the discounted price of $10.

The tasting event will be held at the Buehler Alumni Center, and food vendors will be on site.

Admission for noncompetitors is $15 for staff, faculty and members of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, $20 for others. (All guests are on their own for food.) All fees go toward the cost of the facility, tasting glasses and prizes for the best brews.

Register for the tasting event here; deadline April 10.

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) The worlds first cloned cat named Copy Cat or CC for short, has passed away at the age of 18 after veterinarians diagnosed her with kidney failure.

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CC passed away on March 3 in College Station, the same place where her life began as a result of groundbreaking cloning work, according to Megan Myers, Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

She was born Dec. 22, 2001, and was adopted by Dr. Duane Kraemer, a senior professor in the colleges Reproduction Sciences Laboratory, and his wife, Shirley, six months after her birth.

We in the CVM are saddened by the passing of CC. As the first cloned cat, CC advanced science by helping all in the scientific community understand that cloning can be effective in producing a healthy animal, said Dr. Eleanor M. Green, the Carl B. King dean of veterinary medicine at Texas A&M.

While she lived a long, normal, and happy life, CC was extraordinary in what she represented to the Kraemers, the CVM, and science as a whole, Green said. The entire CVM community mourns her loss, as all at Texas A&M cared deeply about her as a member of the Aggie family, and especially for the Kraemers, for whom CC was a beloved pet for 18 years.

CCs story began with Dr. Mark Westhusin, a CVM professor and the principal investigator of the Missyplicity Project, a $3.7 million effort to clone a mixed-breed dog named Missy that was owned by John Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix.

When the news of the project spread, people around the country became interested in saving pets tissues that could possibly be used for cloning in the future. This demand resulted in the establishment of Genetic Savings and Clone (GSC), Inc., led by Sperlings colleagues Lou Hawthorne and Dr. Charles Long.

While GSC became a bank for these tissues, Westhusin and his team at Texas A&M began to explore the cloning of other pet species, specifically cats.

CC was produced using nuclear transfer of DNA from cells that were derived from a female domestic shorthair named Rainbow.

Once it was clear the nuclear transfer was successful, Kraemer and other scientists transferred the embryos into a surrogate mother, who gave birth to a healthy kitten about two months later.

Though the cats were identical on a genetic level, developmental factors led them to have slightly different coat patterns and color distributions.

CCs passing makes me reflect on my own life as much as hers, Westhusin said. Cloning now is becoming so common, but it was incredible when it was beginning. Our work with CC was an important seed to plant to keep the science and the ideas and imagination moving forward.

CC also became one of the first cloned cats to become a mother. When CC was five years old, she gave birth to three kittens that lived with her for the rest of her life in a custom, two-story cat house in the Kraemers backyard.

CC was the biggest story out of A&M ever and still is, as far as international reach is concerned, Kraemer said. Every paper and magazine had pictures of her in it. She was one of the biggest accomplishments of my career.

While CC represented a great advancement in genetic research, to the Kraemers, she was also a beloved pet. She will be missed by them especially, but also by those at the CVM, Texas A&M and beyond who have followed her story since birth.

CC was a great cat and a real joy, Kraemer said. She was part of the family and very special to us. We will miss her every day.

Throughout her lifetime, CC regularly made news for her birth, pregnancy and each birthday. She proved to the world that cloned animals can live the same full, healthy lives as non-cloned animals, including being able to produce healthy offspring.

Before CC, no pet had ever been successfully cloned with 100% genetic identity.

The research that led to CCs birth kickstarted a global pet cloning industry led by ViaGen Pets, which today clones cats for $35,000 and dogs for $50,000.

Though CC was the first successfully cloned pet, Texas A&M has gone on to clone more species than any other institution in the world, including horses, pigs, goats, cattle and deer.

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URBANA For area cat-lovers, here is an event you wont want to miss.

The Illini Cat Club will host its 28th All-Breed Cat Show on Saturday and Sunday, showcasing around 30 different breeds and some of the countrys top cats, including Maine coons, Bengals, Ragdolls, Cornish Rexes and exotics, among others.

We do it as a fundraiser and to increase awareness of pedigreed cats and to show were not all just about breeding. We are about the benefit of all cats, said local cat judge Mary Auth, who will be among those officiating at the show.

Held at the Radisson Hotel (1001 W. Killarney St., U), doors are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, with an admission donation of $6 for adults and $5 for children. Children under 3 get in free.

The two-day event will feature an agility competition, rescue groups with information booths and vendors with cat-related items for sale.

The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine which has been working on a research project funded by the WYNN Foundation to develop surgical techniques for cats and dogs with short faces will also have a presence.

In addition to being a judge, Auth is also secretary for the Illini Cat Club. She has held many other positions during the clubs 40 years.

Im the only original member left, she said.

The club formed in 1980 when a few locals bonded over their love of cats.

Some were showing cats in Chicago and wanted to bring that experience to Champaign-Urbana. Minus a nine-year hiatus, the show has been a staple ever since.

Cats available for adoption can also compete in the show, and historically, weve adopted just about every cat weve brought, Auth said.

Auth also said the club will be collecting cat and dog food at the door that will be donated to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank.

People who need food, if they have pets, we want to make sure the pets are taken care of, too, she said.

While research shows the Cat Fanciers Association, the worlds largest registry of pedigreed cats, is growing worldwide, it is getting smaller in the United States, mainly due to high show costs, an aging population, lack of commitment to a breeding program and stricter breeding laws.

We used to have 350 cats at a show, and now were lucky if we get 150 or 160, Auth said.

But for her, nothing beats the camaraderie.

Thats one of the neatest things about cats, and animal lovers in general, Auth said. All around the world, youve got a friend.

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Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday updated their reports on the lone dog that appears to have a low-grade infection from coronavirus, saying its likely a case of a human transmitting it to the dog.

A spokesman for the governments Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said the dog, which has been tested several times, is still under quarantine but is not sick.

More than 3,000 people have died from the virus as it spreads around the globe.

But you should not be worried about the welfare of your pets, or other peoples pets, according to authorities.

Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the World Organisation for Animal Health have issued advisories saying there is no evidence that companion animals can spread the virus. Therefore, there is no justification in taking measures against companion animals which may compromise their welfare, the animal health organization said.

Apart from maintaining good hygiene practices, pet owners need not be overly concerned and under no circumstances should they abandon their pets, the government of Hong Kong said. It did suggest that if members of a family were sick with the virus, they might want to consider quarantining their pets.

Heres what has happened so far. A coronavirus patient in Hong Kong had a dog, and the authorities tested the dog which showed some level of virus in its nose and mouth. Theyve tested it several times, and the test still show a weak positive. The dog will remain in quarantine, the authorities said, until its tests are negative.

What does that mean?

Raymond R.R. Rowland, a veterinarian who is a specialist in swine viruses at Kansas State University, said so-called weak positives often show up in testing pigs, where a farmers livelihood can be at stake.

Ill tell you what I tell them, he said. Wait and see.

Even if there is a low-level infection, he said, That doesnt say the animal is sufficiently infected that it can spread the virus. It may be a dead-end host, neither becoming ill nor infecting any other people or animals.

Edward Dubovi, a professor at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, who worked with a team that identified canine influenza in 2005, said the Hong Kong dog may indeed have a low-level infection, which would not be a big surprise. Humans do pass on infections to their pets and other animals on occasion, he said.

Usually, in those situations, he said, you have an initial infection and it doesnt go anywhere else.

Nonetheless, he said, stopping transmission to animals of any virus is always wise, so anyone who has the virus should treat their pets as they would family members, to try to prevent transmission, limiting contact, wearing a mask, washing hands often.

Of course with dogs, he said, that can be tough. Ive probably had my hands licked 19 times since lunchtime, he said, of his own dogs.

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I believe in the power of yet. Doctors should, too, especially the one who used my daughters case as grist for a short-sighted article without her permission.

The power of yet is a concept promoted by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck as part of her research on the differences between growth and fixed mindsets. It tells us that there is always room to learn and to grow through practice, discovery, and research. There is or at least there should be a lot of yet involved in medicine, especially when it comes to diagnosing and treating tick bites.

Back in 2008, my daughter and I were apprentice bird banders. We were both bitten by ticks in the woods around Hopewell, New Jersey, despite taking precautions. I was lucky enough to get the classic bulls eye-rash, suggesting that I had Lyme disease. She pulled two ticks from her abdomen that were not engorged and had been attached for less than eight hours.

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We both took antibiotics for four weeks. I got better. She has been sick ever since: mostly bedridden for two years, she lost weight, lost hair, and developed postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome an uncomfortable rapid increase in the heart rate when standing up after sitting or reclining. Open sores periodically erupted on her legs and then mysteriously disappeared, which were dismissed as nothing by her primary doctor and two dermatologists.

I stepped away from working as a researcher and news editor to become her caregiver. I put my Ph.D. to work to find the right doctors and treatment protocols, though the well was pretty dry.

Fast forward 10 years to an appointment with Warren R. Heymann, a New Jersey dermatopathologist, to get a better understanding of, or diagnosis for, my daughters condition. After he completed his examination, he suggested that she come back for a second visit when she had a fresh sore so he could biopsy it; otherwise, he had nothing to offer.

Before we left his office, I pointed out the long white lines behind my daughters knees, lines that look like the stretch marks that women often see during and after pregnancy.

I tried to employ the growth mindset, the power of yet approach. See these marks? I asked Heymann, pointing to the white lines technically called striae that had appeared years before as angry red streaks. I told him that such lines are commonly seen in people with bartonellosis, a variety of diseases caused by infection with Bartonella, a group of bacteria transmitted by ticks, fleas, and other vectors.

I could tell almost immediately that he dismissed what I was saying.

I didnt know quite how much he dismissed what I had said until his two-year old essay, Striae Due to Bartonella is a Stretch recently landed in my email inbox. My power of yet approach had no effect.

The story he told sounded like it could be you and your daughter, a friend wrote.It was. In the article, Heymann recounted our conversation about my daughter, which had occurred just two weeks before he published his opinion piece in DW Insights and Inquiries, an online publication of the American Academy of Dermatology. (He didnt ask permission to use this example. I tried to submit a rebuttal to the American Academy of Dermatology, but its journals seem to accept submissions only from members.)

Heymann found an article published in the journal Parasites and Vectors by Ricardo Maggi, co-director of the Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory at North Carolina State University School of Veterinary Medicine, and colleagues that addresses these striae. Heymann dismissed their work. Although he acknowledged that no one knows what causes these marks, he conjectured that they occur when excessive stretch overwhelms the dermal integrity of the skin, resulting in a woundtype response with abnormal and/or incomplete repair. Not exactly a power of yet response.

Maggi works with Ed Breitschwerdt, a doctor of veterinary medicine and the man I call the Bartonella guru. He has been studying Bartonella since the death of his father and, more recently, the death of his mother, both likely from Bartonella infections. Breitschwerdt calls Bartonella a stealth pathogen. He and others working to understand tick infections have learned that individuals infected with Bartonella exhibit red striae, now referred to as Bartonella tracks. They dont know why yet.

Heymann overlooked the work of Marna Ericson, an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, who is also trying to determine what causes these tracks in people infected with Bartonella. Her research began when her son developed them. (Ericson happens to be the second author on the Maggi paper that Heymann targeted.)

The dermatopathologist invoked Kochs postulates, four criteria that scientists use to identify agents that cause disease, to dismiss Bartonella as a cause of the stretch marks. Even if confirmed by other studies, an association does not equate with causation this was not a fulfillment of Kochs postulates, he wrote.

Not so fast. Breitschwerdt, who has written about the limitations of Kochs postulates, says it is difficult to apply them when attempting to attribute disease causation to stealth pathogens that can induce chronic, slowly progressive disease manifestations in an animal or human patient. The postulates also dont let researchers readily address environmental, nutritional, genetic and other relevant factors that influence disease causation and do not consider the pathogenic complexities induced by sequential or simultaneous infection with more than one pathogenic microorganism.

Frustrated by Heymanns dismissal, I posted a photo of my daughters sores (with her permission, of course) to an Internet discussion group I belong to called MMI: Microbes and Mental Illness. This 20-year-old closed group, funded and moderated by Robert Bransfield, a New Jersey psychiatrist, has 750 members from 20 countries: psychiatrists and other physicians, nurses, other clinicians, and researchers interested in understanding the association between microbes and mental illnesses.

One of the MMI members, a nurse practitioner who treats a large Amish population in Pennsylvania, suggested that my daughter be tested for Francisella tularensis, a species of bacteria that causes tularemia (also known as rabbit fever), since her sores resembled those she saw in hunters who spend time in the woods. Sure enough, my daughter tested positive for it. And sure enough, tick bites are one way this pathogen can be transmitted.

What I hope readers, especially Warren R. Heymann, take away from this essay is that the power of yet is an inherent concept in the practice of medicine. Doctors must be open to new knowledge, absorb it, and synthesize it.

Physicians dismissed Joseph Lister when he came to America to talk about sterile surgeries, though he was right. They dismissed Ignaz Semmelweis when he suggested that physicians change their clothes and wash their hands before delivering babies and he, too, was right.

The fashion today is to dismiss those trying to understand illnesses for which we dont have answers, like tick-borne infections, as Heymann did. But when he wrote, it must be acknowledged that the concept of these chronic infections is controversial, he was on to something. Chronic infections caused by tick bites are controversial only because we dont completely understand them yet.

Sue Ferrara, Ph.D., a former researcher and editor for ABC News, is an elected school board member in New Jersey, where she learned about the power of yet. She is writing as a private citizen.

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Members of the Nicola Laboratory (left to right) Tri Komala Sari, Seth Schneider, Anthony Nicola, Katrina Gianopulos and Becky Lee review data outside of the lab.

By Josh Babcock, College of Veterinary Medicine

The scientific community may be one step closer to stopping the spread of the herpes virus thanks to new Washington State University research.

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is the most common cause of oral herpes which causes painful blisters better known as cold sores.

WSU researchers recently published a study in the American Society for Microbiologys journal mSphere that is the first to identify how one of the virus proteins acts as a critical signaler for the virus to succeed in infecting a cell.

Herpes simplex virus type 1 invades the body through the epithelial cells that line human organs, including the skin. Once inside, the attack sequence is launched when a protein on the virus surface called glycoprotein C detects a change in the cells acidity level. A second protein called glycoprotein B then initiates the attack on the cell. We may have identified a novel target for intervention because, in theory, if you can prevent that initial infection, you can avoid the virus, said Tri Komala Sari, a WSU graduate student in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology and the papers lead author.

Komala Sari said while the virus was able to invade the cell without glycoprotein C, it was significantly delayed in recognizing the change in acidity levels and it wasnt as effective in taking over the cell.

Understanding the function of this protein could help researchers learn how to keep the virus from invading a cell or lower its efficiency during infection.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HSV-1, the oral form of herpes, infected 47.8% of Americans ages 14 to 49 from 2015 to 2016. The World Health Organization estimates 3.7 billion people under age 50 (67%) have HSV-1 globally. There is no vaccine for the virus. To make matters worse, many people infected dont show any symptoms.

After that initial infection the virus hides. Thats why they say, herpes is forever, because once you get that latent infection there is no way back from that, said Anthony Nicola, the G. Caroline Engle Distinguished Professor of Infectious Diseases and principal investigator on the project.

Nicola said understanding how the virus infects the cell may help uncover ways to stop the virus before it goes into hiding. He noted the herpesvirus is far more complex in structure than other viruses. While the herpes virus has about a dozen proteins on its surface with various functions, HIV and influenza have just two or three proteins.

Komala Sari said theres still a long way to go in blocking the virus, but this finding could be a target of a vaccine in the future.

Now we need to know more about how that interaction between these two proteins occurs, when and where, she said.

The work was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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SEATTLE, March 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trupanion, a leading provider of medical insurance for cats and dogs, confirmed today that they have seen no unusual increase or change in the frequency of illnesses in their extensive pet health database. The Seattle-based pet company, now in its third decade, has paid out over $1 billion in veterinary invoices and is constantly reviewing data to monitor changes in veterinary medicine to understand any underlying changes related to regular illness patterns.

Vice President of Analytics, Mary Rothlisberger confirmed: We monitor our data on a very granular level; daily, weekly and monthly and by breed, country, city and even at a neighborhood level to make sure we understand and are on top of any health-related trends that might be out of the norm. As of today, we have not seen any increases or changes in the frequency of illnesses that would appear unusual.

Dr. Steve Weinrauch, BVMS, MRCVS, Trupanions Chief Veterinary Officer explained: With the recent news regarding a pet dog in Hong Kong being quarantined after testing 'weak positive' for COVID-19, we have experienced increasing concern from our members regarding the health of their pets. We want to provide them and other loving pet owners with some peace of mind. We understand that a pet is a member of the family and its natural to be worried for all of your loved ones.

The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have further confirmed that no animals in the United States have been identified with the virus and there is no evidence to suggest that dogs, or other pets can contract or spread COVID-19.

Just as it has for the last 20+ years, Trupanion wants to continue to reassure existing or new members that coverage includes any medical issues that occur after enrollment and that our team is on hand 24/7 to support any questions they may have.

Weinrauch continues: It is important to Trupanion that we make sure everyone has the latest information in terms of what we see show up in our data. If things do change, we will be letting members, pet owners and veterinarians know immediately. In the meantime, as always, if theres ever anything that youre worried about and you notice your pet acting under the weather, you should visit your trusted veterinarian.

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Trupanion's Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr. Steve Weinrauch, BVMS, MRCVS and Vice President of Analytics, Mary Rothlisberger, ACAS are always available to share insights or to provide context regarding pet health data as it relates to the extensive Trupanion database of over half a million pets. Please contact mediarelations@trupanion.com for scheduling.

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Trupanion is a leader in medical insurance for cats and dogs throughout the United States and Canada with over 500,000 pets enrolled. For over two decades, Trupanion has given pet owners peace of mind so they can focus on their pet's recovery, not financial stress. Trupanion is committed to providing pet owners with the highest value in pet medical insurance with unlimited payouts for the life of their pets. Trupanion is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "TRUP". The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. Trupanion policies are issued, in the United States, by its wholly-owned insurance entity American Pet Insurance Company and, in Canada, by Omega General Insurance Company. For more information, please visit trupanion.com.

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Naomi Davis is an amazing example of the power of philanthropy.

Davis, a senior major in music therapy at Colorado State University, will graduate in May with very little debt. Thats because her hard work and talent mixed in with some generosity from CSU supporters have provided enough scholarship assistance to pay for most of her degree (shes also minoring in business).

I have been able to pay for almost all of my college with scholarships, the gifted student and passionate learner said. Im so thankful to the generous people who provide those scholarships. They have definitely eased my way and helped me focus on my studies.

Davis is a remarkably talented musician she plays 12 instruments, from piano and guitar to trombone and bassoon who knew in high school in Colorado Springs that she wanted to harness the power of music to heal. She looked at several universities with music therapy programs before determining that CSU was the best place to pursue her passion.

In addition to her classes, Davis has benefited from undergraduate research opportunities at CSU when she got to see her education in action at a Fort Collins health facility. Shell do a clinical internship in Annapolis, Maryland, after graduation.

We got to see what a difference music therapy makes in patients, she said. Thats really powerful.

While scholarships she has several merit-based scholarships, and her participation in the CSU Marching Band provided even more assistance have paid for a significant portion of her schooling, Davis has also worked two on-campus jobs. During the day you might see her leading a campus tour for the Office of Admissions, while at night she works in the Call-a-Ram program for University Advancement.

Davis story serves as a reminder of why the 2020 CSU Day of Giving, set for March 12-13, is so important. This day actually stretches for 1,870 minutes a tribute to the year CSU was founded and gives faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends a chance to support the university they love.

You can support any number of causes, from programs in your favorite college, to providing meals for hungry students through Rams Against Hunger, to helping preserve the majestic elm trees on the historic CSU Oval. There are scholarship funds, funds to boost professional development, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Graduate Scholarship Endowment, and even a fund to help care for CAM the Ram.

If 1,500 people donate, a donation of $160,000 from an anonymous alumnus will be added to total money raised. Last year, nearly 2,000 donors contributed almost $300,000.

Davis certainly understands the power of giving.

A lot of people are under the impression that they have to give a lot of money to make an impact, but thats just not true. Even the smallest gift makes a difference, she said. Just think about it if everyone associated with CSU gave $10, that would add up to millions. And think of the good that money could do.

Even if you cant donate, everyone is encouraged to tell their CSU story by posting your favorite memory using #CSUDayofGiving on your social media platforms.

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On New Years Eve 2019, Drs. Kate Toyer and Tara Cashman sat down with their three kids and reviewed their escape plan.

The bushfires that had been burning for weeks were now threatening to overtake Batemans Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, where the family lives and the veterinarians run a small animal clinic.

They had packed the car a month ago with food, water, and a few other essential itemsenough for the family members and their cat to live a short time away from home.

The calls came at 6 the next morning: Evacuate now.

We werent even asked to go to the evacuation center in town but to go straight to the beach, said Dr. Cashman, explaining they did, in fact, drive 6 miles to an evacuation center because of the better facilities. Thankfully, that was the right decision because the fires were so bad that those who evacuated to the beach actually had to stand in the water.

Fire season in Australia typically begins late in the year during the hot, dry summer when a lightning strike or human negligence sets a tree or patch of grass alight.

Bushfires are destructive and often deadly. In the southeast state of Victoria, 173 people died during the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 that scorched more than a million acres of land and destroyed over 4,000 homes and other buildings.

The tragedy, one of the worst in Australias history, led to the creation of a task force to study all aspects of the governments bushfire strategy. That investigation resulted in several reforms, including early warning alerts similar to the kind Drs. Toyer and Cashman received.

The changes are widely credited with the relatively low number of human fatalities despite the unprecedented severity of the 2019-20 fire season. At press time in late January, the government reported the fires had killed more than 30 people, burned over 25 million acres, and destroyed roughly 3,000 houses.

Most of the fatalities and property loss occurred in New South Wales, where three American firefighters were killed in a plane crash on Jan. 23, one of whom was Ian McBeth, son of Dr. William McBeth, a member of the AVMA Food Safety Advisory Committee (see sidebar).

Batemans Bay was hit really hard early on, said Dr. Toyer, adding that 350 homes were destroyed. Most of the pictures you see in Western media, of the massive flames and burned-out landscapes, were taken in this area.

The clinic Dr. Toyer runs with her partner, Dr. Cashman, was, like their home, damaged but not destroyed. The practice operated off a generator for more than a month.

The South Coast has just been devastated since New Years Eve, said Dr. Julia Crawford, president of the Australian Veterinary Association. She estimates over 200 veterinary practices have been affected, about 90 seriously.

Support from around the world has been pouring in, including from the AVMA and American Veterinary Medical Foundation as well as other organizations, to support veterinary- and animal-focused relief efforts. The Morris Animal Foundation has allocated $1 million for scientific research grants to fund studies on how the regions wildfires have affected its native animals.

The most startling news about the bushfires has been the number of animals killed. Chris Dickman, PhD, a professor of ecology, conservation, and management of Australian mammals at the University of Sydney, estimates the fires will kill more than 800 million animals in New South Wales alone and impact a billion animals nationwide. By way of comparison, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals estimated up to 1 million wild and domesticated animals died during the 2009 Black Saturday brushfires.

As Dr. Dickman explained in a statement from the university, animals that survive the fires in the first instance by fleeing or going underground will return or reemerge into areas without the resources to support them. Others will fall victim to predators. Even for those birds or other animals able to flee to unaffected areas, they will rarely be able to successfully compete with animals already living there.

I think theres nothing quite to compare with the devastation thats going on over such a large area so quickly, Dr. Dickman said. Its a monstrous event in terms of geography and the number of individual animals affected.

We know that Australian biodiversity has been going down over the last several decades, and its probably fairly well known that Australias got the worlds highest rate of extinction for mammals. Its events like this that may well hasten the extinction process for a range of other species. So, its a very sad time.

Dr. Crawford described Dr. Dickmans estimates as a fair assessment.

I talked to veterinarians who assisted in the animal part of the response early on. They were waiting for injured wildlife to be brought in, but nothing came in, Dr Crawford said. We think these fires are so hot and burn so fast that probably 90% of these animals died immediately.

The deaths are just far more than we ever thought.

How to explain the catastrophic loss of animal life? How, even with advance warning, were the Australian government and people caught off guard by the severity of the fires?

In September, the same month the 2019-20 bushfire season started, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a special climate statement warning of elevated fire dangers for New South Wales and the neighboring state of Queensland. Australia is three years into one of the worst droughts in decades. Then, in December, a heat wave broke the record for the highest nationwide average temperature, with some areas reaching up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

Together, these factors created an environmental tinderbox on a scale unlike anything the country had previously experienced.

The bushfires this season are unique in that multiple fires are occurring simultaneously and joining up to form superfires, explained Dr. Robert Johnson, director of Vets Beyond Borders, an Australian nonprofit that runs charitable veterinary programs in regions of Asia and the Pacific.

We are in the middle of a serious drought in Eastern Australia that has created an extraordinary amount of fuel for the fires, he said. What also sets these fires apart from previous ones is the fact that they have affected such a large proportion of populated areas. The amount of acreage burned is about eight times larger than the 2018 Californian wildfires.

With fire season expected to continue into the spring, the extent of the destruction is not yet fully understood.

Everyones still in response mode, Dr. Crawford said. The government puts the number of cattle and sheep deaths at more than 23,000, but she expects the final tally will be much, much higher.

When the last fire is finally out, Dr. Crawford worries about the economic fallout veterinary practices are sure to experience after months of interrupted services. She explained that Australian veterinarians generally do not charge to treat injured wildlife brought by the public to their clinics. Some practices provide as much as $3,000 in pro bono services weekly.

Thats all fine and well in ordinary times; we enjoy it, she said. But after a crisis like this, when your practice is almost burnt down, youre working from a generator, and the only patients youre seeing are wildlife, it becomes problematic from a cost standpoint.

Its summer here, Dr. Crawford added, and holidaymakers whod normally bring their pets to these coastal practices arent coming. Those veterinarians have lost that revenue, and its just devastating.

The country may see relief only temporarily, as conditions that caused the bushfires are predicted to continue, if not worsen, thanks to climate change.

Australias climate has warmed by just over 1 degree Celsius since 1910, leading to an increase in the frequency of extreme heat events, according to the Meteorology Bureaus State of the Climate 2018 report (PDF). At the same time, there has been a decline of around 11% in April-October rainfall in the southeast of Australia since the late 1990s. As a result, there has been a long-term increase in extreme fire weather and in the length of the fire season across large parts of Australia, according to the report.

Australia is projected to experience further increases in sea and air temperatures, with more hot days and marine heat waves and fewer cool extremes. Decreases in rainfall across southern Australia with more time in drought are also predicted.

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People see the changes they expect in their pets, leading them to misattribute illness, good health, improvements, and declines.

Dr. Brennen McKenzie is a companion animal veterinarian working in California, the writer behind the SkeptVet blog, and the author of the recently published book, Placebos for Pets? The Truth About Alternative Medicine in Animals. He also is a columnist for Veterinary Practice News and past president of the Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine Association. He wrote a 2014 JAVMA commentary on cognitive bias in clinical decisions (J Am Vet Med Assoc 2014:244;271-276).

In his book, Dr. McKenzie teaches how to evaluate the theories, methods, evidence, and safety records for myriad complementary or alternative therapies. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

A. I initially was thinking of it as a resource for pet owners, and I tried to write the book in language that is accessible to the general public. So, Im hoping that it will be an introduction to the general ideas about how we evaluate medical therapies for pets, whats the appropriate way to do that, whats the role of science in helping us to evaluate these thingsand also an appraisal of some of the more common alternative medical approaches that pet owners are likely to encounter. However, I also wanted it to be useful to veterinary professionals. All of the things that I talk about have extensive academic references available so that they can dig deeper if they want.

A. Its a fundamental feature of human cognition, and this is one thing I think all veterinarians should have some familiarity withthe history and philosophy of science and cognitive psychology. We all reason in ways that are kind of built into our brains.

I give a patient a medication, and a week later, that patients clinical symptoms resolve. I see a causal connection there and assume that the medication is responsible for the change. What we know from science is that its a lot more complicated than that. Were often doing multiple things at once. Diseases have a natural history where their symptoms wax and wane and can just resolve spontaneously. We may have the wrong diagnosis to begin with, and so when things dont go the way we expect, its not always because of what we did but because we were wrong about our assumptions.

Its very difficult for any of us, whether were veterinarians or not scientifically trained, to ignore our personal experience. And if a study comes out saying something that Ive been doing for 10 years and been selling to clients doesnt work, its difficult psychologically and cognitively for me to accept that my assessment is wrong and that Ive been doing the wrong thing.

A. Its complicated. One of the primary questions in science education today is, How do you change peoples minds about things? And were facing a crisis in terms of vaccine hesitancy (see story).

As a clinician seeing patients, I have a few key things that I try to focus on when I want to challenge somebodys perception. The first is I have to acknowledge that I understand their perception and validate their experiences and their reasoning.

If you begin by telling people that theyre ignorant or stupid, they wont listen to you. They may have perfectly rational reasons for a mistaken belief. So you begin by saying, I understand why you feel that this is a useful approach or why you feel that this therapy has been helpful to you. And then you introduce some potential reasons to doubt that.

I often talk about other cases in science where weve given up on therapies that clearly dont work anymore. Bloodletting is a great example where we believed in things for long periods of time and found them not to be true.

I also try to say, OK, lets look at this in terms of risk and benefit. Glucosamine is a widespread therapy for which theres very little evidence of efficacy, and yet, everyones using it. I say to people, Here are the reasons why I dont think it probably works. I also think that the risks are quite low, so I dont feel like its imperative that you give up that.

If you meet people halfway and work with their beliefs and their goals, I think theyre more likely to listen to you. Over time, you build a relationship with clients, and they come to trust you, and I think that gives you more credibility to tackle larger and more challenging beliefs.

It also makes a difference where that belief fits in their life. Im not going to talk to a client whos a chiropractor and try to convince them that chiropractic is not a valid therapy because thats embedded in their entire life, and thats not going to be a useful or successful interaction.

A. Almost certainly not, no. I think most people dont understand the theories behind the drugs that I give them, either. Most people are not interested in the deep background of medical therapies. What they hear are claims by practitioners of benefits, usually justified in terms of, Ive been doing this for 20 years, and it sure looks to me like it works. Anecdotal claims tend to be the easiest to offer and the most psychologically compelling, even though theyre the least reliable.

There are certainly some people who have a general worldview that is skeptical of science and technology and the pharmaceutical industry, which has certainly earned a great deal of skepticism. And I think that alternative medicine fits into that worldview. I think also that conventional medicine, particularly for humans, has a lot of serious problems in terms of how we communicate with people, how we manage their lives and their needs. Weve become very siloed and segmented into subspecialties and very technologically focused. I think there are a lot of things wrong with how we offer health care to people, and the environments and conversations that alternative practitioners often have with people address a lot of those concerns and those problems. I do think that alternative medicine fits into peoples lives in an ideological and philosophical way.

A. I do offer some fairly simple guidelines in the book. One is that no single study is ever definitive because its impossible to completely eliminate bias. If theres only one study, you should still be a bit skeptical. Larger studies are better than smaller studies. Any study that does not effectively have a placebo arm and doesnt hide from both the owners of the pets and also the investigators or veterinarians which therapy each pet is getting is probably going to be biased and not reliable. So, there are some very simple rules that you can apply.

I think, honestly, the onus is on veterinarians to be better at understanding how to appraise a clinical trial and then to talk to owners. Even in the absence of large-scale, definitive, high-quality evidence, I do think we can look at these therapies and the reasoning behind them and the evidence for them and make sound, honest recommendations one way or anotherthat dont just rely on anecdotes.

Theres a method that I try to teach in the book for approaching things, so even if there are things that I dont cover in the book, I hope that itll be useful to people in terms of finding a structured, reliable way to approach new things.

As a veterinarian, Im hearing about new supplements and new therapies all the time, and many of them dont have a lot of research evidence. But I dont think we have to say to our clients, I dont know, theres nothing I can do, take your best guess. I think we can use a systematic, science-based approach to help guide and counsel our patients.

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Radiation therapy to treat cancer can be grueling, requiring consecutive days of therapy over days or weeks.

When you talk to patients about coming in for 35 treatments, or seven weeks of daily therapy, usually their face kind of sags in disappointment or perhaps apprehension, says Keith Cengel, a radiation oncologist at Penns Perelman School of Medicine.

Thats why the promise of whats known as FLASH radiation therapy, in which a full dose of radiation is given in less than a second, is so great.

But FLASH remains in its infancy, with researchers still unsure about how the all-in-one-go approach stacks up against traditional methods. To test its effectiveness at killing cancer cells and sparing normal cells, researchers from Penn Medicine and Penns School of Veterinary Medicine are pairing their expertise in a clinical trial applying the cutting edge of human medicine in dogs.

From a veterinary standpoint, this is a type of radiation that is still very, very new in human medicine, says Jennifer Huck, a veterinary surgeon at Penn Vet who is partnering with Cengel on the trial. So theres a lot of excitement in the veterinary realm about this.

In the trial, dogs with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer that people, especially children, can also develop, receive the FLASH radiation. They then go on to receive the standard of care for osteosarcoma, which entails amputating the affected limb and, in some cases, at the owners and veterinarians discretion, following up with chemotherapy to slow the growth of microscopic disease in other areas of the body that may already be present at the time of diagnosis.

The study is not designed to confer a direct benefit to the dogs enrolled, though the clinicians arent ruling out that possibility. The main intent, they say, is to understand whats happening to the cells and tissuesboth cancerous and normalthat the therapy targets. In labs both at Penn Medicine and Penn Vet, researchers are studying samples from the amputated limb to assess the effects of the treatment.

Were looking at gene expression profiling, markers of cell death and cell division, and analyzing immune cell populations to just get a survey of what the tumor and normal tissue look like, says Cengel.

The work is moving quickly. The project aims to enroll 20 dogs. The researchers started late in 2019 and have already treated seven. Several more await treatment or evaluation.

I think that we greatly underestimate the excitement of pet owners to be involved in research and to be able to contribute to a project like this, says Huck. The treatment that their pet receives is ultimately no different from any other standard of care that we would offer to any pet that comes in with osteosarcoma, whether theyre on the study or not, so I think that also gives them comfort.

Four-year-old Milo, a leggy SaintBernard, is one such participant. Owner Tim Gordon describes him as perfect.

Hes a great dog, great with the kids, great with our other dog, Gordon says. Hes adjusted to everything weve thrown at him.

Starting around Thanksgiving, however, the family, which includes Tims wife, Trista, and their 8-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, could tell Milo was feeling out of sorts.

We noticed he was limping around a bit and being really lethargic, says Gordon. At first they attributed his behavior to the influx of guests they had around the holiday. Then they started to worry about hip dysplasia. But in early December, Gordons 8-year-old son noticed a bulge in Milos leg near his paw.

The family brought their pet to the veterinarian expecting to learn he had a sprain or even a broken bone, but a graver diagnosis came back: osteosarcoma. Wanting to participate in a clinical trial, the family made several trips to Penn Vet from their home near Baltimore to get him evaluated and then for the radiation, limb removal surgery, and follow up.

Not only did participating in the clinical trial help the Gordons cover some of the costs of treatment, but they also appreciated the opportunity to contribute to studies that may advance cancer treatment.

That kept us going, says Trista Gordon. Even my daughter kept saying that Milo could help other dogs or even children who have this disease. That eased her sadness in a way.

That was especially resonant since Tim Gordon lost his mother to osteosarcoma. I knew what we went through with my mom and what she went through, he says. The thought definitely went through our minds that maybe we can help benefit other families by participating.

The goal of radiation therapy, like all cancer-killing strategies, is to unleash a strong assault on tumor cells while sparing normal cells as much as possible. And while researchers have tweaked other facets of radiation, such as how it is aimed and how the dose is fractionated, or spread over days or weeks, its only very recently that the FLASH approach has opened the possibility of giving a full dose all at once.

Traditional radiation therapy uses the energy of photons, or X-rays, to kill cancer cells. Early work with FLASH radiation has used electrons to deliver that energy, but those can only penetrate tumors that are a few centimeters deep.

In January, Cengel and Penn Medicine colleagues including Constantinos Koumenis and James Metz reported on FLASH radiation using protons, which can penetrate deeper than electrons to allow treatment of the vast majority of human tumors by beaming in radiation from outside the body to target tumors and to spare normal tissues.

Our initial results are very promising that FLASH proton radiotherapy may improve outcomes significantly. However, even if this approach isnt more effective or less toxic than what we have been doing, says Cengel, if we end up with exactly the same results but with a single treatment, it is still tremendously beneficial in terms of the patient experience.

Provided the dog trial goes well, Huck and Cengel hope to continue working quickly to translate their findings to benefit more patients, both human and canine.

And while a diagnosis of cancer and subsequent treatment is never easy, the Gordon family is grateful for how well Milo is doing.

Each day hes surpassing our expectations, honestly, says Trista Gordon. Hes getting back to his playful self.

Keith Cengel is an associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Huck is an assistant professor of clinical surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

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AMANA COLONIES, Iowa (KCRG) - Her whole life, Dr. Barbara Roland has loved animals. That love inspired her career path. Since getting her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1987, Roland has treated animals, most recently at the Newton Animal Clinic.

Now that Roland is semi-retired, she continues to save animals' lives by using her knowledge and skills as a veterinarian at Safe Haven of Iowa County. Its a no-kill shelter that serves not only local strays but animals from around the country.

Its mission is to, rescue, protect, rehabilitate and find good homes for dogs and cats in Iowa County. Secondly, to significantly reduce the overpopulation of stray dogs and cats, and improve the lives of humans and the lives of pets through public education and sponsoring low/no-cost spay and neuter programs.

Rolands home has always been the Amana Colonies. That's also where the Safe Haven of Iowa County is, housed in the former Krauss furniture building. Built in 1956 by Roland's relatives, Virginia Marie Hoppe donated the building to the animal rescue in 2012 after the family furniture store closed down.

I know they're all smiling down in heaven at the work we are doing here because our family has always loved animals, Roland said, with a smile. Especially Virginia, this would make her so happy.

In the past couple of years, the Safe Haven of Iowa County added a surgery suite, where Roland's services have helped thousands of animals. She volunteers her time and talents to complete surgery on the rescue animals, all for free.

She's not just a regular vet either, she's a skilled surgeon, Kimberly Buresh, 15-year volunteer and board president, said. Since we've had our surgery suite, and have our volunteer vet here, our adoptions have doubled, especially with the cats, because we're able to get them in, spayed, neutered, so much quicker because we can do that in house.

Buresh said it normally costs around $100 for a spay or neuter procedure, and scheduling is up to other clinics. As more healthy animals get adopted, that frees up space to take in more strays. The shelter can also take on more complicated health cases.

Freddy the cat, at the time of KCRG-TV9s visit, went from near-death to happy and healthy in just days from Rolands care.

He's just one of the countless other animals, helped by Roland, living out her life's dream to help animals, even, without the promise of a paycheck.

I'm glad we were able to save his life," Roland said.

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Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor (Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine) in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health[Ref. C/595/09]

City University of Hong Kong is a dynamic, fast-growing university that is pursuing excellence in research and professional education.As a publicly-funded institution, the University is committed to nurturing and developing students talents and creating applicable knowledge to support social and economic advancement. The University has nine Colleges/Schools. As part of its pursuit of excellence, the University aims to recruitoutstanding scholarsfrom all over the world in various disciplines, includingbusiness, creative media, data science, energy and environment, engineering, humanities and social sciences, law, science, veterinary medicine and life sciences.

The Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health was established in July 2017. Its mission is to achieve and sustain excellence in teaching and research in veterinary studies through advancing the understanding of the interconnectivity of animal and human health. This is an opportunity to join a vibrant diverse international team shaping the future of veterinary education and research in the region. The Department plays a key role in teaching students in the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and providing postgraduate research training. Departmental academic staff members undertake teaching and research across their areas of specialty, and are actively engaged in enhancing the profile and effectiveness of veterinary training, public health and applied research through partnership and strengthening links with industry, business, commerce and other institutions locally and internationally.

Applications and nominations are invited for the above posts:

Duties

The appointee is expected to support the overall academic mission of the University and facilitate further development of research and teaching activities including delivery of problem-based learning courses of the Department; contribute to the Departments evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) teaching, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and through establishing a research programme, especially with the horse racing industry in Hong Kong.

Requirements

A Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree or an equivalent veterinary degree, preferably registrable in Hong Kong, with evidence of further postgraduate education in the form of Diplomate status in a recognized specialty board and/or academic qualifications at doctorate level in EBVM or Veterinary Epidemiology. A PhD in a relevant discipline (veterinary medicine, animal science, biology) or equivalent is highly preferred. Applicants must have demonstrable evidence of research success including publications in internationally-recognised journals and the ability to obtain research funding, and strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively as a member of an academic team. Experience in tertiary-level curriculum development and teaching in associated subject areas, such as veterinary epidemiology, and/or experience in equine epidemiological research would be an asset.

Salary and Conditions of Service

Remuneration package will be driven by market competitiveness and individual performance. Excellent fringe benefits include gratuity, leave, medical and dental schemes, and relocation assistance (where applicable). Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract.

Information and Application

Further information on the posts and the University is available athttp://www.cityu.edu.hk, or from the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong (email :ssthilai@cityu.edu.hkorchhung@cityu.edu.hk).

To apply, please submit an online application athttp://jobs.cityu.edu.hk, and include a current curriculum vitae, a cover letter, research and teaching statements based on the position. Nominations can be sent directly to the Department (email:cardith.hung@cityu.edu.hk).Applications and nominations will receive full consideration until the positions are filled. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted; and those shortlisted for the post of Assistant Professor will be requested to arrange for at least 3 reference reports sent directly by the referees to the Department, specifying the position applied for. The University's privacy policy is available on the homepage.

City University of Hong Kong is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to the principle of diversity. Personal data provided by applicants will be used for recruitment and other employment-related purposes.

Worldwide recognition ranking 52nd, and 4th among top 50 universities under age 50 (QS survey 2020); 1st in Engineering/Technology/Computer Sciences in Hong Kong (ARWU survey 2016); and 2nd Business School in Asia-Pacific region (UT Dallas survey 2017).

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DULLES, Va. Question 1:

Is it possible that these seized birds carried the latest strain of the Coronavirus, that is spreading across China?

Answer:

Yes, but unlikely. Various experts told The Verify Team, that while it's possible, the likelihood of birds carrying the latest strain, remains unlikely.

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Process:

When news broke about the Dulles seizure of birds, the response was widespread on social media, with concern that this could mean the spread of that latest strain of Coronavirus.

"Can these spread the Virus," one person asked.

"Those birds (were) probably carrying the Coronavirus," wrote another.

To find out if this is actually true, the Verify Team called Mohamed Medhat El-Gazzar from Iowa State University and Siba Samal, from The University of Maryland.

"We don't know much about this virus," said Samal. "So we need to take precautions."

Samal said that birds do have "their own Coronaviruses," just like all animals do. He said it was unlikely that it would jump from species to species, although it is possible.

"We know this jumped from species to species before," he said. "So the possibility lies."

El-Gazzar agreed.

"It is unlikely that birds carry this specific outbreak virus," he said. "Because it is thought to come from bats, which are mammals."

That being said, El-Gazzar said we shouldn't take the possibility lightly.

"That does not mean it's impossible," he said. "To cross-species."

RELATED: Dulles customs seizes dead birds in passenger baggage from China

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Question 2:

Did the spread of the current Coronavirus strain start when someone ate "bat soup," like many are claiming online?

Answer:

Likely not. The origins of this latest strain remain unclear. While the strain likely did come from an animal, there's no evidence that bat soup had anything to do with this.

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Process:

Soon after news came out about the dead birds seized at Dulles Airport, the online comments began. Many started to spread rumors about how the latest strain of the Coronavirus first began.

"I read somewhere it started from bat soup," wrote one person.

"I read it was from eating wolves," wrote another. "And Koala bears."

To find out the truth, the Verify Team turned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said that this latest strain of coronavirus was likely caused by animal-to-human transmission.

"Early on, many of the patients in the outbreak..." wrote the CDC. "Reportedly had some link to a large seafood and animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread."

The CDC also said that the latest strain is a "BetaCoronavirus," which like MERS and SARs have origins in bats.

However, there's no evidence indicating that bats, in particular, were the cause.

"I don't think anyone in the world knows what actually happened," said Assistant Professor Mohamed Medhat El-Gazzar, from Iowa State University. "In these cases, it's very hard to pinpoint where it started."

Professor Siba K. Samal, from the University of Maryland, said that it was very unlikely that it came from "Bat soup," as has been stated online.

"The virus is much less likely to survive if cooked," he said.

Question 3:

Has the U.S. completely stopped travel from China to the United States?

Answer:

No. Although there are some major restrictions.

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Process:

In the aftermath of the dead birds being seized at Dulles, there were a lot of questions about what travel restrictions exist between China and the United States.

"I thought they stopped travel from China," said one person on Facebook.

To answer that, the Verify Team turned to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Bureau of Consular Affairs within the U.S. Department of State.

Secretary of HHS, Alex Azar announced the restrictions on Jan. 31, 2019. United States citizens, permanent residents, and their families are still able to travel from China, although everyone else is restricted.

"These prudent and targeted actions will decrease the pressure on public health officials," he said at the time. "Screening incoming travelers, expedite the processing of U.S. citizens returning from China, and ensure resources are focused on the health and safety of the American people."

Currently, U.S. citizens returning from Hubei Province will face up to 14 days of mandatory quarantine, according to the policy. U.S. citizens from the rest of mainland China will undergo "proactive entry health screening at a select number of ports of entry," and up to 14 days of "monitored self-quarantine."

Azar also announced that President Trump signed a "presidential proclamation" suspending entry into the U.S. of all foreign nationals, except the immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

The Bureau of Consular Affairs has also issued a pretty strong warning to any U.S. citizens wishing to travel overseas.

"Do not travel to China," they wrote.

The BCA also announced that Chinese authorities have "suspended air road and rail travel in the area around Wuhan and placed restrictions on travel and other activities throughout the country."

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While many immunologists use mouse models to conduct their research, J. Oriol Sunyer of Penns School of Veterinary Medicine has made transformational scientific insights using a very different creature: rainbow trout.

In a paper featured on the cover of the journal Science Immunology, Sunyer and colleagues developed a method to manipulate the trout immune system to reveal a new understanding of how the animals defend against infection while promoting a healthy microbiome. The work addresses a decades-old question of whether mucosal antibodiesthose present on mucosal surfaces of the body such as the gut, or in the case of fish, the gillsevolved to fight pathogens, or to preserve a healthy microbiome. As it turns out, mucosal immunoglobulins coevolved both roles from very early on during vertebrate evolution.

You might be thinking, Rainbow trout? We fish for them; we eat them, says Sunyer. But it turns out they can also tell us a lot about some fundamental biomedical, evolutionary, and immunological questions.

Specifically, Sunyer and colleagues found that a mucosal antibody, an immunoglobulin known as IgT, is critical both in controlling pathogens and in regulating the microbiome of fish gills, a tissue type that shares similarities with several mucosal surfaces of mammals, such as the intestines.

We found that IgT is playing two paradoxical roleson the one hand reducing bad microbes, and on the other hand promoting the presence of certain beneficial bacteria, says Sunyer. Fish are the earliest bony vertebrates to possess a mucosal immune system, and so the fact that fish possess a specialized immunoglobulin that does both jobs suggests that these two processes are so fundamentally important for vertebrate survival that they arose concurrently, early on in evolution.

For nearly 20 years, Sunyers lab has contributed a steady stream of discovery regarding the evolution and roles of the immune system using fish as model species. In 2010, a seminal paper in Nature Immunology featured on the journal cover identified the role of IgT. It was the first time that fish were shown to have a form of mucosal immunitya more specialized response to pathogens that enter the body from the environment; in this case, through the gills, skin, and fish gut.

Before that we thought only four-legged animals, or tetrapods, had mucosal immunity, Sunyer says. That study demonstrated the induction of potent IgT responses upon infection with a mucosal pathogen.

The group also showed that IgT coats a large portion of the bacteria that are part of the fishes microbiome, the community of bacteria and other microbes that dwell on various tissues of the animals bodies. That got the researchers thinking about which function arose first for vertebrate mucosal immunoglobulins: fighting pathogens or preserving a healthy microbiome.

In mammals, the immunoglobulin IgA seems to have analogous function to IgT in fish, Sunyer explains. In the last few years there have been some key studies showing that IgA is required to keep the mammalian microbiome in check. In mice and humans lacking IgA, their microbiome changes: The beneficial bacteria go down and the potentially disease-causing bacteria go up.

A weakness of these studies in mammals lacking IgA, Sunyer notes, is the inability to tease apart the precise role of IgA in preserving a balanced microbiome, since the lack of IgA from birth precludes the establishment of a healthy microbiota in these animals.

To better understand the roles of mucosal immunoglobulins in preserving a healthy microbiome, Sunyer and colleagues developed a model in adult fish where researchers could temporarily deplete them of IgT, lasting about two months.

By doing so they could study the role of IgT in preserving, rather than establishing, a healthy microbiome, while also evaluating the susceptibility to pathogens of fish lacking IgT.

When they depleted IgT, the researchers found that levels of a mucosal parasite greatly increased, underscoring the immunoglobulins role in defending against harmful invaders. But they also saw a dramatic impact on the microbiome composition: IgT-depleted fish lost the IgT coating on the bacterial community in their gills and had more bacteria escape from gill surfaces and enter the tissue layer beneath, leading to tissue damage and inflammation.

Looking closely at the bacteria coated by IgT in normal animals, the research team found that IgT targeted specific species over others. These species included bacteria associated with both health and disease states in fishsimilar to what had been found with IgA in mammals.

Critically, the authors found that the overall microbiome in IgT-depleted fish was significantly altered, in a shift known as dysbiosis. The overall diversity of bacteria present decreased, numbers of beneficial bacteria such as those producing short-chain fatty acidscritical for the maintenance of tissue integrity and immune homeostasisalso decreased, while disease-associated species increased.

We see that there seems to be specific microbes that have to be controlled, says Sunyer. Either they are harmful and tend to escape and cause problems in the nearby tissue in the absence of IgT, or perhaps they are beneficial but require IgT to colonize the mucosal surfaces. In both fish and mammals, it now seems apparent that their respective mucosal immunoglobulins do these jobs.

One great benefit of the researchers IgT depletion technique is that its temporary and performed in adult animals. After several weeks of depletion, the fish IgT levels return to normal. Thus the researchers were able to track the microbiome as IgT came back, observing what amounted to recovery; the microbes in the gill regained IgT coating, the microbiome was restored to its initial composition, and the tissue damage and inflammation that had been seen around the gills was reversed.

In microbiome studies, recovery is a very important point, Sunyer says. When you take an antibiotic, you can perturb your microbiome to the extent that recovery may take a very long time, but the perturbation we used, of removing IgT, had a profound but transient effect on the microbiome composition, which underwent a speedy recovery.

As more and more scientific studies identify links between the microbiome and various aspects of health from maintaining a healthy weight to the risk of cancer or even neurological conditions like Alzheimers and schizophrenia, Sunyer is hopeful that his fish model will find even more applications.

Studying only mammalian models is not going to be enough to understand the role of the microbiome in all of these physiological processes, says Sunyer.

Because the symbiotic relationship between vertebrates and their microbiome is very ancient, and one which first flourished with the emergence of mucosal immunoglobulins in fish, Sunyer says that rainbow trout will help us discover the underlying mechanisms by which the interactions between immunoglobulins and the microbiome influence immunity, metabolism, cancer, and much more.

These studies, Sunyer adds, will have a crucial impact on the potential uses of specific species of fish bacteria as probiotic agents that may stimulate the immune system to protect against pathogens. With every other fish that we eat deriving from fish farming, an industry plagued with emerging pathogens, novel therapies, such as probiotics, are in urgent need.

J. Oriol Sunyer is a professor of immunology and microbiology in the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

Sunyers coauthors on the study from Penn Vet were co-first authors Zhen Xu and Fumio Takizawa, Yasuhiro Shibasaki, Yang Ding, and Yongyao Yu. Co-authors from the University of New Mexico were Elisa Casadei, Thomas J. C. Sauters, and co-corresponding author was Irene Salinas.

The study was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant 1457282), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Grant USDA-NIFA-2016-09400), the National Institutes of Health (grants GM085207-09 and GM103452), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS Overseas Fellowships, and the University of New Mexicos Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Program.

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PULLMAN Some employees of Washington State University were responsible for the misappropriation of thousands of dollars between 2014 and 2019.

Thats according to a new report by the state auditors office.

The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports that the university initiated an investigation into several cases of employees misreporting time worked and leave of absence used, which totaled more than $12,000.

The audit found that an employee of the College of Nursing did not properly report leave of absence multiple times between April 2016 and June 2018.

The audit also found two WSU School of Music employees were overpaid by a total of $2,895.61 between August 2014 and February 2018 by claiming hours not worked.

An employee with the College of Veterinary Medicine was overpaid by $6,448.56 between November 2017 and November 2018 by claiming hours not worked. The employee was fired for abandonment of post.

A University Advancement employee, who was overpaid by $2,894.38 between March 2018 and February 2019 for claiming hours not worked, resigned from WSU.

The auditors office recommends WSU strengthen its oversight and monitoring of the reporting and use of leave balances.

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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), portrayed in an illustration created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM

Back in 2016, when Zika virus first began to cause infections in the Americas, University of WisconsinMadison researchers pulled together a coalition of scientists to study the virus and openly share their data for others.

Two weeks ago, those researchers David OConnor, professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and Thomas Friedrich, professor in the UW School of Veterinary Medicine used the 2016 playbook to start planning efforts to study the novel coronavirus that first emerged in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019.

The virus, which causes flu-like symptoms and respiratory illness, has sickened more than 43,000 people in China and across several nations, according to health officials. At least 1,018 people have died.

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Within the next few weeks, Friedrich, OConnor, and their interdisciplinary partners hope to begin studies to better understand the novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV.

We are working together to develop a plan to build out nonhuman primate models to test medical countermeasures such as vaccines and therapeutics, says OConnor. We want to make sure we are recapitulating the kind of clinical signs (of virus infection) that happen in people.

The researchers are interested in understanding how much of the virus makes its way into the body and in bodily fluids; where in the lungs the virus infects; and in creating opportunities to test new vaccines and antivirals. They also hope to look at how the immune system responds and whether there are indicators that can help clinicians distinguish who might be at risk for developing severe disease.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka

At the Influenza Research Institute (IRI) in Madison, Professor of Pathobiological Sciences Yoshihiro Kawaoka is also preparing to study 2019-nCoV.

Among the research questions he hopes to address is the efficiency with which the natural virus transmits among animal models for disease. The novel coronavirus is capable of transmitting from person to person, but it most likely originated in bats. However, as with other coronaviruses known to cause significant illness in humans, such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, the virus likely passed through another animal before becoming infectious in humans. Researchers have not identified the animal or animals involved.

With SARS, the virus passed to humans through contact with civet cats, and with MERS, through dromedary camels.

Kawaoka is also interested in studying how the virus causes illness and what cells the virus is capable of infecting. The results of the work could be used to help develop treatments and vaccines to protect people against infection.

The work at IRI will be conducted in a Biosafety Level 3 Agriculture (BSL-3 Ag) laboratory, which is just below Biosafety Level 4. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines call for research using the 2019-nCov virus to be conducted in a BSL-3 laboratory since important aspects of how the virus causes disease and transmits are not well understood.

We are using SARS as a biosafety and biosecurity model for this coronavirus because we dont know enough about the virus yet, says Rebecca Moritz, Responsible Official and the Institutional Contact for Dual Use Research at UWMadison. The SARS coronavirus caused an outbreak in more than two dozen countries in 2003, infecting more than 8,000 people and killing 774.

My lab is interested in why things like this happen, why do viruses emerge from somewhere and begin causing diseases in humans? What are the evolutionary pathways they need to take hold, and how do they adapt to our immune responses?

If we can understand that, hopefully we can erect more barriers to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future.

Thomas Friedrich

The university has worked proactively with Public Health Madison and Dane County, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the State Lab of Hygiene, infectious disease specialists and University Health Services to prepare to conduct the research.

We are requiring researchers to monitor their health and to take their temperatures twice per day, says Moritz. Fever is one symptom of 2019-nCoV illness. If they are not feeling well, our exposure control plans in place involve infectious disease and public health authorities. We would quarantine and test them for the virus.

With the studies planned, UWMadison researchers are at the leading edge of efforts to understand an emerging human illness. Kawaoka stresses that basic research studies are necessary to combat pathogens that make animals and people sick. OConnor, Friedrich and their collaborators plan to once again share their data publicly so that other researchers may use it to advance the science, and hopefully lead to efforts to improve and protect human health.

Says Friedrich: My lab is interested in why things like this happen, why do viruses emerge from somewhere and begin causing diseases in humans? What are the evolutionary pathways they need to take hold, and how do they adapt to our immune responses? If we can understand that, hopefully we can erect more barriers to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future.

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You only get to celebrate your sesquicentennial once, and on Feb. 11, 2020, thats just what Colorado State University did.

For a birthday this big, the celebration started a day early and in two cities. On Monday, the College of Agricultural Sciences held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Temple Grandin Equine Center on the Foothills Campus. The center will celebrate and elevate the role of the horse in society through the physical and emotional benefits of serving those in need, integrating research and education in order to promote evidence-based practices of equine assisted activities and therapy.

Tuesday morning started with representatives from CSU appearing at the State Capitol in Denver to receive an official proclamation from the Colorado Legislature congratulating the states only land-grant university on its 150th anniversary. The proclamation recognized all three campuses of the CSU System for educating nearly 60,000 students every year, generating more than $465 million in annual economic activity, and improving the lives of all Colorado citizens.

By lunch time, the Fort Collins campus was ready to party, first with selfies with the larger-than-life #csu150 on the Plaza, then with cake and cookies and 150th items at The Foundry in the Corbett/Parmelee dining center. CAM the Ram, CSU Cheer and the Pep Band provided the excitement while people signed the giant birthday card.

And the events werent over yet. Tuesday evening, former UN Ambassador Susan Rice sat down for a conversation with NPR foreign correspondent Greg Myre. The free talk, sponsored by the Office of International Programs with generous support from Women and Philanthropy and the Provosts Sesquicentennial Colloquium, filled the Lory Student Center Ballroom. She talked about her early life her mother is widely considered the mother of the Pell Grant that provided college opportunity for low-income students as well as other topics covered in her new book, Tough Love.

Rice could have been summing up CSUs 150 years of education, research and service to the people of Colorado and the world with this observation:

The more we know each other the more we engage each other and recognize each other as human beings the better, because, for better or for worse, we are all in this together and we are going to sink or swim together.

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