Brown bear macked into Lithuanian capital city, but was not shot; Texada Island grizzly is also still alive & well VILNIUS, Lithuania; TEXADA ISLAND, British Columbia, Canada––A two-year-old female European brown bear in mid-June 2025 found her own way out of trouble in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. Whether her distant cousin, a […]
Walls, boar purges, & no-man’s-land fail to stop African swine fever
Wild boar to blame for only 1% of outbreaks, Chinese learn PARIS, France––Donald Trump is not the only world leader who has yet to learn that walls don’t work––not if the goal is really to keep a foreign threat out, as opposed to presenting the appearance to a political base of doing something drastic […]
Pigs investigated as possible Ebola vectors
Pigs can get Ebola, but do they spread it? KAMPALA, Uganda; NAIROBI, Kenya––Domestic pigs may already be among the vectors transmitting deadly Ebola viruses to humans, though no one knows for sure yet, warns a five-member International Livestock Research Institute team in a soon-to-be-published edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The […]
Shelter rabies cases remind of the risk in trying to “save them all”
“He was a kitten. He came in at four weeks old.” PITTSBURGH, LONDON––Alerts to the risk that animal shelters, shelterless rescues, and adoption transport may spread rabies came simultaneously in December 2014 from no-kill organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. “He was a kitten. He came in at four weeks old,” Washington Area Humane […]