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1933-1975 Wildlife Disease Summary

ABSCESS

Cottontail Rabbit, Snowshoe Hare, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel, Muskrat, Beaver, Mink, White-tailed Deer, Great Horned Owl, Ruffed Grouse

AIRSACCULITIS

Greater Scaup, Wild Turkey, Common Tern

ALOPECIA

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel, Cottontail Rabbit, Raccoon, White-tailed Deer, Coyote

ANEMIA

Verminous

Oldsquaw Duck

ANOMALY

Brachygnatha

White-tailed Deer

Congenital

Eastern Fox Squirrel, White-tailed Deer, Red Fox, Raccoon

Hermaphroditism

White-tailed Deer

Masculinization in a Female

Ring-necked Pheasant, White-tailed Deer

Melanism

Coyote, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel

Microphthalmia

White-tailed Deer

Mummified Fetus

White-tailed Deer

Partial albinism

White-tailed Deer, Ring-necked Pheasant, Cottontail Rabbit

ARTHRITIS

Chronic

Suppurative Ankylosing

Elk

Unspecified

White-tailed Deer, Raccoon

ASPERGILLOSIS

Mallard Duck, Canvasback Duck, Redhead Duck, Wood Duck, Teal, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Whistling Swan, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Gull, Ring-necked Pheasant, Ruffed Grouse, Wild Turkey, American Robin, Common Grackle, Blackbird, Red-tailed Hawk, Bald Eagle

BABESIOSIS

Raccoon

BIRTHING DIFFICULTIES

Still Birth

Elk, White-tailed Deer

BLINDNESS

White-tailed Deer, Raccoon, Woodchuck, Red Fox, Ring-necked Pheasant

BLOAT

White-tailed Deer

BLOCKAGE

Proventricular

Canada Goose

BOTULISM

Type C

Least Sandpiper, Sandpiper, Common Gallinule, Caspian Tern, Ring-billed Gull, American Wigeon, Gadwall Duck, Northern Shoveler, Mallard Duck, Black Duck, Wood Duck, Pintail, Blue-winged Teal, Green-winged Teal, Canada Goose

Type E

Belted Kingfisher, Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Bonaparte's Gull, Common Tem, Caspian Tern, Tern, Sandpipers, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Red-necked Grebe, Horned Grebe, Common Loon, Great Blue Heron, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Merganser, Scoter, Wood Duck, Common Goldeneye, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Bald Eagle, Muskrat, Alewife

Unspecified

Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal, Black Duck, Mallard Duck, Redhead Duck, Scaup Duck, American Wigeon, Pintail, American Coot, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull

BUMBLEFOOT

Hungarian Partridge

CALCIUM DEPOSITS

Kidney

Striped Skunk

CARDIAC FAILURE

Raccoon, Canada Goose

CELLULITIS

Suppurative

Eastern Fox Squirrel

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISTURBANCE

Screech Owl, House Sparrow, Cottontail Rabbit, Woodchuck, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel, Eastern Chipmunk

CHOLERA

Fowl

Green Heron

CIRCUMSCRIPTA

Calcinosis

White-tailed Deer

CIRRHOSIS

Liver

White-tailed Deer

COCCIDIOSIS

Renal

Canada Goose

Unspecified

Snowshoe Hare, Cottontail Rabbit, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel, Blackbirds

CONJUNCTIVITIS

White-tailed Deer

CYST

Dermoid

Cottontail Rabbit, White-tailed Deer

Hepatic

White-tailed Deer

CYSTICERCOSIS

Cottontail Rabbit, Snowshoe Hare

Taenia hydatigena

White-tailed Deer

Unspecified

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Red Squirrel

 

DERMATITIS

River Otter, Eastern Fox Squirrel

DISEASE

Epizootic Hemorrhagic

White-tailed Deer

Hardware

Wire in the Gizzard

Ring-necked Pheasant

Tyzzer's

Muskrat

DISTEMPER

Canine

Raccoon, Mink, Gray Fox, Striped Skunk

DROWNING

Beaver, Muskrat, Old Squaw Duck, Mallard Duck, Black Duck, Eastern Chipmunk

DYSTOPHY

Muscular

Wild Turkey, Snow (Blue) Goose

EDEMA

Extremities

White-tailed Deer

ELECTROCUTION

Blue Jay, Barn Swallow, Tree Swallow, Raccoon

ENCEPHALITIS

Badger, Raccoon, Woodchuck, Cottontail Rabbit

ENTERITIS

Hemorrhagic

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Muskrat, White-tailed Deer, Mute Swan, Whistling Swan, Lesser Scaup Duck, White-winged Scoter, Ring-billed Gull

Unspecifed

Cottontail Rabbit, Muskrat, Eastern Fox Squirrel, White-tailed Deer, Ring-necked Pheasant, Ruffed Grouse, Wild Turkey, Whistling Swan, Swan, Canada Goose, Mallard Duck, Common Goldeneye, Canvasback Duck, Black Duck, White-winged Scoter, Scoter, Green-winged Teal

Verminous

Scaup Duck, Mallard Duck

Verminous Ulcerative Hemorrhagic

Mute Swan, Oldsquaw Duck, Surf Scoter

EVERSION

Cloaca

Ring-billed Gull

EXPOSURE

White-tailed Deer, Opossum, Oldsquaw Duck, Spruce Grouse, Mourning Dove, Golden Eagle, Great Blue Heron

FASCIOLOIDIASIS

White-tailed Deer, Moose

FISH HOOK IN ESOPHAGUS

Mute Swan, Common Goldeneye, Ring-billed Gull

GANGRENE

Dry

Cottontail Rabbit

GASTRITIS

Hemorrhagic

Southern Flying Squirrel

Unspecified

Cottontail Rabbit, Coyote

Verminous

Snowshoe Hare

GASTROENTERITIS

Hemorrhagic

Raccoon

Unspecified

Opossum, White-tailed Deer

GOUT

Visceral

Whistling Swan, Canada Goose, Scaup Duck, Mallard Duck, Wood Duck, Redhead Duck, Ring-necked Pheasant, Coyote

HEPATITIS

Cholangio

White-tailed Deer

Chronic

Wild Turkey, Snowshoe Hare

Focal

Cottontail Rabbit

Necrotic

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Red-tailed Hawk

Non-suppurative

Striped Skunk

Traumatic

Elk

Verminous

White-tailed Deer

HERNIA

Diaphragmatic

White-tailed Deer

HISTOMONIASIS

Ring-necked Pheasant, Wild Turkey, Bobwhite Quail

HYDROCEPHALUS

Eastern Fox Squirrel, White-tailed Deer

HYDROCYST

White-tailed Deer

HYPERPARASITISM (pentastome)

Ring-billed Gull

HYPOTHYROIDISM

Woodchuck

INCORRECT TOOTH GROWTH

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Woodchuck

INFECTION

Aeromonas

Mute swan

Erysipelas

Lesser Scaup Duck

Fungal

Black Duck

INFESTATION

Louse

Eastern Fox Squirrel

Mite

Ruffed Grouse

Tick

Ruffed Grouse

IMPACTION

Food (cheek)

White-tailed Deer

INTOXICATION

Oil

Whistling Swan, Swan, Teal, Mallard Duck, Black Duck, Greater Scaup Duck, Lesser Scaup Duck, Ruddy Duck, Redhead Duck, Merganser, Common Goldeneye, Canvasback Duck, Oldsquaw Duck, Great Blue Heron, Muskrat, Painted Turtle

LEUCOCYTOZOONOSIS

Canada Goose, Wild Turkey (L. smithi)

LEUKODYSTROPHY

Woodchuck

LIPIDOSIS

Hepatic

Striped Skunk

LIPOMATOSIS

White-tailed Deer, Common Goldeneye

LUXATION

Lens

White-tailed Deer

LYMPHADENITIS

Caseous

White-tailed Deer

MALARIA

American Robin

MANGE

Sarcoptic

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel, Cottontail Rabbit, Porcupine, Red Fox, Coyote

MASTITIS

White-tailed Deer

MENINGITIS

White-tailed Deer, Elk

MURCOMYCOSIS

Raccoon

MYIASIS

Warbles

Cuterebra sp.

Cottontail Rabbit

Nasopharyngeal

Cephenemyia phobifer (Nose Bots)

White-tailed Deer

NEMATODIASIS

Cardial

Dirofilaria immitis

Red Fox, Gray Fox

Cerebrospinal

Baylisascaris procyonis (probable)

Woodchuck

Parelaphostrongylus tenuis

Elk, White-tailed Deer

Gizzard

Cheilospirura spinosa

Ruffed Grouse

Myocardial

Unspecified

Snow (Blue) Goose

Proventricular

Dispharynx nasuta

Ruffed Grouse

Respiratory

Syngamus trachea

Ring-necked Pheasant

 

Subcutaneous

Dirofilaria ursi

Black Bear

Dracunculus lutrae

Raccoon, Mink, Red Fox

NEPHRITIS

Focal

Interstitial

Striped Skunk

Polycystic

White-tailed Deer

Pyelo

Cottontail Rabbit

Unspecified

White-tailed Deer, Mink, 

NEPHROSIS

Acute

Toxic

Muskrat, Cottontail Rabbit

NOSEMATOSIS

Cottontail Rabbit

OBSTRUCTION

Intestinal

Beaver

Stomach

Great Blue Heron, Canada Goose

PANCREATITIS

Acute Hemorrhagic

American Crow

Acute Necrotic

Muskrat

PASTEURELLOSIS

Ring-necked Pheasant, Cottontail Rabbit

PERICARDITIS

White-tailed Deer, Herring Gull, Mute Swan

PERITONITIS

Egg

Wild Turkey, Sandhill Crane

Unspecified

Moose, Elk, White-tailed Deer, Raccoon, Opossum, Muskrat, Cottontail Rabbit, Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel, Bald Eagle, Wild Turkey, Ruffed Grouse, Ring-necked Pheasant, Mute Swan, Whistling Swan, Canada Goose, Snow (Blue) Goose, Hooded Merganser, Mallard Duck, Ruddy Duck, Blue-winged Teal, American Robin, Common Grackle

PLEURITIS

White-tailed Deer, Raccoon, Moose

PNEUMONIA

Aspiration

White-tailed Deer

Mycotic

Mallard Duck

Unspecified

Elk, White-tailed Deer, Red Fox, Raccoon, Woodchuck, Opossum, Badger, Mink, River Otter, Muskrat, Cottontail Rabbit, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Red Squirrel, Striped Skunk, Common Loon, Lesser Scaup Duck, Swan, Ruffed Grouse, European Partridge

Verminous

Snowshoe Hare, Cottontail Rabbit, Raccoon, Mink, White-tailed Deer

PNEUMONITIS

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Mallard Duck

POISONING

1080

Herring Gull

Aldrin

Tree Sparrow, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, Screech Owl, Cottontail Rabbit

Arsenic

White-tailed Deer, Snowshoe Hare, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Porcupine, Red Fox

Lead

Mute Swan, Whistling Swan, Snow (Blue) Goose, Canada Goose, Oldsquaw Duck, Redhead Duck, Canvasback Duck, Greater Scaup Duck, Lesser Scaup Duck, Common Goldeneye, Black Duck, Mallard Duck, Black-Mallard Duck Hybrid, Ring-necked Duck, Pintail Duck, Green-winged Teal, Common Loon, Ring-necked Pheasant, Mourning Dove, Red-tailed Hawk

Organochlorine

American Robin, Cedar Waxwing, Blue Jay, Common Grackle, American Crow, Starling, House Sparrow, Purple Martin, Brown Thrasher, Ring-necked Pheasant, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Blue Heron, Canada Goose, Eastern Fox Squirrel

Strychnine

Mourning Dove, Common Grackle, Blue Jay, House Sparrow, Rock Dove, Mallard Duck, Black-Mallard Duck Hybrid, Canada Goose

Uremic

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel

Yew

Wild Turkey

Zinc Phosphide

Ring-necked Pheasant

POLIOENCEPHALOMALCIA

White-tailed Deer

POX

Avian

Brown-headed Cowbird

Squirrel

Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel, Eastern Fox Squirrel

PROVENTRICULITIS

Verminous

Ruffed Grouse

PYEMIA

Cottontail Rabbit

RABIES

Raccoon, Red Fox, Striped Skunk, Bat

RUPTURE

Esophageal

American Crow

SALMONELLOSIS

Dark-eyed Junco, House Sparrow, Evening Grosbeak, Northern Cardinal, Common Grackle, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Mallard Duck, Great Blue Heron

SARCOSPORIDIOSIS

Redhead Duck, Mallard Duck, Black Duck, Common Goldeneye, Blue-winged Teal, Sharptail Grouse, Ruffed Grouse, Ring-necked Pheasant, American Woodcock, Mourning Dove, Cottontail Rabbit, White-tailed Deer

SCLERODERMA

White-tailed Deer

SEPTICEMIA

White-tailed Deer, Muskrat

SHOCK

Eastern Fox Squirrel, Mallard Duck, White-tailed Deer

SINGED HAIR

Opossum, Cottontail Rabbit

SINUSITIS

Ring-necked Pheasant

SPONTANEOUS RUPTURE

Of a Blood Vessel

Cottontail Rabbit, White-tailed Deer, Whistling Swan, Canada Goose, Ring-necked Pheasant, Great Horned Owl

STARVATION

Elk, White-tailed Deer, Bobcat, Coyote, Red Fox, Beaver, Muskrat, Raccoon, Cottontail Rabbit, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Screech Owl, Snowy Owl, Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl, Turkey Vulture, Canada Goose, Whistling Swan, Common Goldeneye, Canvasback Duck, Lesser Scaup Duck, Ruddy Duck, Common Tern, Ring-billed Gull, Black-backed Gull, Red-throated Loon, American Bittern, Wild Turkey, Ring-necked Pheasant, Ruffed Grouse, Mourning Dove, Bobwhite Quail, House Sparrow, Ruby-throated Hummingbird

STROBILOCERCOSIS

Muskrat

SUFFOCATION

Canada Goose, Whistling Swan, Ring-necked Pheasant

TOXEMIA

White-tailed Deer

TOXICITY

Corn

White-tailed Deer

TOXOPLASMOSIS

Red Fox

TRAUMA

Elk, Moose, White-tailed Deer, Black Bear, Gray Wolf, Coyote, Gray Fox, Red Fox, Bobcat, Beaver, Muskrat, Nutria, Opossum, River Otter, Mink, Longtail Weasel, Fisher, Badger, Raccoon, Striped Skunk, Woodchuck, Cottontail Rabbit, Snowshoe Hare, European Hare, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Eastern Gray/Black Squirrel, Red Squirrel, Southern Flying Squirrel, Meadow Vole, Shorttail Shrew, Norway Rat, White-footed Mouse, Little Brown Bat, Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Osprey, Turkey Vulture, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Goshawk, American Kestrel, Snowy Owl, Great Horned Owl, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl, Screech Owl, Saw-whet Owl, Barred Owl, American Crow, Raven, Sandhill Crane, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Mute Swan, Whistling Swan, Canada Goose, Snow (Blue) Goose, Mallard Duck, American Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck, Greater Scaup Duck, Lesser Scaup Duck, Northern Shoveler, Wood Duck, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Ruddy Duck, Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal, Common Goldeneye, Canvasback Duck, Redhead Duck, Black Duck, Gadwall, Pintail, Horned Grebe, Pied-billed Grebe, American Coot, Common Gallinule, Sora Rail, Virginia Rail, King Rail, American Bittern, Common Loon, Double-crested Cormorant, Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Bonaparte's Gull, Common Snipe, Tern, Solitary Sandpiper, Mourning Dove, Rock Dove, American Woodcock, Bobwhite Quail, Ring-necked Pheasant, Wild Turkey, Prairie Chicken, Sharptail Grouse, Ruffed Grouse, Spruce Grouse, Black Grouse, Chimney Swift, Common Nighthawk, Belted Kingfisher, Red-headed Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Common Flicker, White-breasted Nuthatch, American Robin, Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, Bobolink, Northern Oriole, Dark-eyed Junco, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Pine Grosbeak, Common Grackle, European Starling, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Cedar Waxwing, Eastern Meadowlark, Catbird, Purple Martin, Brown Thrasher, Long-billed Marsh Wren, Short-billed Marsh Wren, Wren, Swainson's Thrush, Veery, Red-eyed Vireo, Philadelphia Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, Train's Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Goldfinch, Indigo Bunting, Swamp Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, House Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Red Crossbill, Ovenbird, Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Yellow-breasted Chat, Northern Waterthrush, Black-and-White Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Palm Warbler, Cerulean Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Canada Warbler, Connecticut Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Mourning Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Parula Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler

TREMATODIASIS

Pancreatic

Mallard Duck

Respiratory

Paragonimius kellicotti

Mink, River Otter, Red Fox

TRICHOMONIASIS

Mourning Dove, Northern Cardinal, House Sparrow

TRYPANOSOMIASIS

Elk

TUBERCULOSIS

Avian

Ring-necked Pheasant, Canada Goose

TULAREMIA

Muskrat, Beaver, Cottontail Rabbit, Snowshoe Hare, Great Horned Owl

TUMOR

Adenocarcinoma

White-tailed Deer, River Otter

Blastoma

Medulla 

White-tailed Deer

Fibroma

Cottontail Rabbit, White-tailed Deer, Red Fox

Leiomyosarcoma

Canada Goose

Lymphosarcoma

Cottontail Rabbit

Malignant Lymphoma

Cottontail Rabbit, White-tailed Deer

Mesotheleoma

White-tailed Deer

Nephroblastoma

Cottontail Rabbit

Osteofibroma

White-tailed Deer

Papilloma

Cottontail Rabbit, White-tailed Deer

Rhabdomyosarcoma

Mute Swan

Sarcoma

Cottontail Rabbit, White-tailed Deer

Unidentified

American Woodcock, Cottontail Rabbit, Prairie Chicken, Ruffed Grouse, House Sparrow, Mouse, Muskrat, White-tailed Deer

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