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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
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From: "Brunner, Jesse L" <[log in to unmask]>
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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
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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
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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
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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
 
 
 
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