On May 1st, after 19 years of dedicated service to the Citizens of Indiana, Duane Murphy, DVM, PhD, retired from his position as Veterinary Pathologist and Assistant Director of the ADDL-Heeke Laboratory located at the Southern Indiana Purdue Agriculture Center in Dubois, IN. During his tenure at our southern lab, Dr. Murphy worked closely with veterinarians, the poultry industry, and animal owners to help solve their disease problems. In his role of veterinary diagnostician for Southern Indiana, he saw a breadth of diseases in a wide variety of species, and was always on the lookout for foreign animal diseases that would have severe consequences. As a result of his diligence, he saw and aided in the diagnosis of a number of disease outbreaks. While working to diagnose the cause of illness in a group of rabbits, Dr. Murphy recognized a possible outbreak of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease, a foreign animal disease which could have devastated wild rabbit populations. In concert with the Indiana Board of Animal Health and the USDA AVIC, the outbreak was definitively diagnosed and the threat was eradicated before it gained a foothold in the U.S. Please help us thank Dr. Murphy for all that he has done for Indiana and the U.S.!