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FROM  THE  DIRECTOR
H. Leon Thacker, DVM, PhD

In the good ole summertime, the “lazy daze of summer” aren’t likely to happen this year.  It doesn’t look like we are going to run out of things to do.  The Exotic Newcastle Disease in the Southwest has put us on alert for detecting its occurrence as early as possible if it gets to Indiana; the finding of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Canada has brought increased surveillance efforts to the U.S.;  the import of some giant rats from Africa has ostensibly brought monkey pox to our shores and into Indiana and the West Nile virus season has started a bit earlier than it did last year.  We’ve had one case of monkey pox through the ADDL in a prairie dog; the case is awaiting confirmation by CDC, but gross and histologic lesions and finding pox virus particles with electron microscopy in the lung are very suggestive of the diagnosis.  At the time the animal came through the lab, we were not suspicious of monkey pox as news of its occurrence in this country had not yet been released.  Fortunately, no one in the lab contracted pox from it.

As charges for sending samples via public transportation that contain known infectious agents have gone to such high levels, it has become necessary to recharge shipping charges if you request return of infectious cultures.  The high cost of shipping is incurred if we are shipping known infectious material; if you are sending us material or we are sending material that is “diagnostic” and perhaps suspicioned, but not known to have, infectious agents present, the cost is much lower.

We are getting up to speed on running immunohistochemistry for transmissible encephalopathies.  It is an involved procedure and, up to now, we have been running tests on samples received and contracted with the federal lab inAmes, Iowa.  If all goes well we should be set up to do the surveillance testing for CWD in Indianawhite-tail deer this fall using this procedure.

We hope you have an enjoyable summer and we hope that you are unhesitating to contact us with your diagnostic needs.

 

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