Steven Rinella) talks with Krysten Schuler, a wildlife disease ecologist at Cornell University’s Wildlife Health Lab).
Topics discussed: Watch our behind-the-scenes footage from Cornell’s necropsy lab); the fungus that affects salamanders; deer ticks carrying blood that contains prions; why things die; mange; brain worm; the infection cycle of when worm larvae in deer poop is eaten by a snail, which then gets eaten by a moose; insect contamination on raw produce; liver flukes, or parasites that look like the sidecar of a liver; "found dead"; winter tick; lead in birds and incinerating fisher liver to test lead levels; making CWD smash burgers for your friends who say they don’t care about CWD; hemorrhagic diseases and floating in ponds; the time when Steve defended his family from a “rabid” squirrel; the rabid beaver that bit five people; nasal bots; and more.
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