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This is exactly what we have been seeing in box turtles from Tennessee and North Carolina, possibly Virginia as well. We have sen FV3-like causing these exact signs since 2003 and is a real problem. It is likely the same virus as the tadpoles. I just finished 3 challenge studies in adult sliders that will show very similar things to the ones in the report. I believe that aquatic turtles can be a potential reservoir in addition to salamanders and substrates for the virus and that box turtles are an extremely sensitive species. I have been expanding the surveillance in turtles to 5 states and several species. We hope to have something for the group soon, Matt Matt Allender, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACZM Department of Comparative Biosciences University of Illinois [log in to unmask] Office: 217-265-0320 Fax: 217-244-1652 ________________________________ From: "Brunner, Jesse L" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 5:31 PM Subject: Re: Washington Post Article I've been emailing with Scott Farnsworth, the MS student who led the field project. I believe David Green did the diagnostics. About the other questions here is his response. "working towards publishing on it. As for whether or not it is the same virus, I think you know better even than I do about the debate on that issue. As far as I am aware that is an answer that we just don't have a definitive answer for yet." Sounds like there will be an NPR report on the research soon. Jesse Sent from my phone; please pardon the typos. On Feb 13, 2012, at 3:06 PM, "Gray, Matthew James" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I believe David Green was the lead pathologist. David? > >From:Global Ranavirus Consortium [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of marja kik >Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 1:26 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Washington Post Article > >This is indeed terrible, did the people involved published this already, do they know whether it is the same virus that killed the tadpoles and the turtles? >Gr >Marja > >Van:Global Ranavirus Consortium [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Trent Garner >Verzonden: maandag 13 februari 2012 18:42 >Aan: [log in to unmask] >Onderwerp: Re: Washington Post Article > >That’s bloody awful. Damn. > > >________________________________ > >From:Global Ranavirus Consortium [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gray, Matthew James >Sent: 13 February 2012 17:39 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Washington Post Article > >GRC: > >A recent story in the Washington Post on ranaviruses. > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/commuting/2012/02/01/gIQA5O0Z9Q_story.html > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/box-turtle-suffers-from-symptoms-of-ranavirus-031/2012/02/12/gIQAIUDE9Q_video.html > > > >This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl, a service from BlackSpider Technologies. >Click here to report this email as spam. > > >The Zoological Society of London is incorporated by Royal Charter >Principal Office England. Company Number RC000749 >Registered address: >Regent's Park, London, England NW1 4RY >Registered Charity in England and Wales no. 208728 >_________________________________________________________________________ >This e-mail has been sent in confidence to the named addressee(s). >If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or distribute >it in any form, and you are asked to contact the sender immediately. >Views or opinions expressed in this communication may not be those >of The Zoological Society of London and, therefore, The Zoological >Society of London does not accept legal responsibility for the contents >of this message. The recipient(s) must be aware that e-mail is not a >secure communication medium and that the contents of this mail may >have been altered by a third party in transit. >If you have any issues regarding this mail please contact: >[log in to unmask] >___________________________________________________________________________ >This message has been scanned for viruses by MailControl, a service from BlackSpider Technologies.