CWH News and Research Highlights

November 2006: CWH researcher Graham Hickling and colleagues in UT's Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology are working with TWRA staff and hunters to investigate pathogens are carried by deer-associated ticks in Eastern Tennessee. MORE

October, 2006: CWH researcher Ted Henry and colleagues in the Center for Environmental Biotechnology and the Departments of Chemistry and Physics have been awarded EPA funding to study the bioavailability and toxicity of a ‘nanomaterial’ (C60 fullerene). MORE

August, 2006: Surveillance has indicated the presence of H5 and N1 avian influenza subtypes in samples from two wild mute swans in Michigan, but testing has ruled out the possibility of this being the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain that has spread through birds in Asia, Europe and Africa. MORE

May, 2006: Cattle use of wetlands in Tennessee may increase the prevalence of amphibian pathogens in tadpoles.  MORE

May, 2006: CWH researchers develop a novel test for detecting Johne’s disease in cattle and wildlife  MORE