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Andy Reeves is holding a Glaucous Gull that was capture, sampled for avian influenza and banded near Barrow, Alaska.

Environmental swabs for extraction. 

Virology samples for extraction. 

Inoculation of embryonating chicken eggs

Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) with crusty and thickened scales overlaying raised blisters as a result of a fungal skin infection, captured from island in western Lake Erie, Ohio, in August 2009 (case 22747).

Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) with crusty and thickened scales overlaying raised blisters as a result of a fungal skin infection, captured from island in western Lake Erie, Ohio, in August 2009 (case 22747).

A USGS scientist takes a sample from a northern pintail duck (Anas acuta) to be tested for avian influenza. 

USFWS and MA Division of F&W biologists in MA mine containing bats with WNS. 2008

Close up of water droplet covered hibernating bat in MA mine. 2008

Affected WNS bats in MA mine 2008.

Fungal covered items in NY mine (likely scat). 2008.

Cluster of little brown bats in crevice outside a cave in Vermont. 2008

Dead bats at a cave entrance in Vermont. 2008.

Biologist entering the entrance of a cave containing bats with white-nose syndrome in Vermont. 2008.

Bat clusters near the entrance of a Vermont cave. 2008.

Biologist navigating large rocks inside a Vermont cave. 2008.

Hibernating bats on wall of a cave in Vermont. 2008.

Little brown bat with wing damage in Vermont 2008.

Close up of wing damage on a Little Brown bat in Vermont. 2008.

Hibernating bats in a Vermont cave. 2008.

Close up of hibernating bats in a Vermont cave 2008.