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SUMMARY: Researchers will investigate the impact of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus hemorrhagic disease in Myanmar’s managed elephant population to help improve health management efforts for Asian elephants.

SUMMARY: Researchers will study foot-and-mouth disease strains circulating in buffalo and cattle living in overlapping ranges in South Africa to identify outbreak sources and strains contributing to widespread disease.

SUMMARY: Researchers will evaluate the relationships between season changes, population dynamics, and climate change and their impact on disease transmission in bottlenose dolphins to help predict and monitor future disease outbreaks.

SUMMARY: Researchers will develop in-field methods and criteria to identify African lions with tuberculosis to guide disease mitigation efforts. THE PROBLEM: Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) is the causative agent of...

SUMMARY: Researchers will assess if the currently available yellow fever vaccine for humans is equally safe and effective in New World primates as a tool to address disease outbreaks.

SUMMARY: Researchers will study rising temperatures' impact on the hatch and the emergence success of nesting loggerhead and green sea turtles, including hatchling survival, growth rates and sex ratio changes.

SUMMARY: Researchers will study the emergence of Leptospira infections in the endangered southern sea otter as a step to saving this cherished species.