We are committed to removing disease as a roadblock to wildlife conservation. We achieve this through comprehensive disease surveillance programs, disease outbreak investigations, and targeted disease research for all of the animals in our care, including the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park collections and our field conservation programs.
As a necropsy technician in the Disease Investigations Lab at the San Diego Zoo, I am frequently asked how the animal carcass on the table eventually becomes a glass slide to be read under a...
In Part 1 of this blog, our pathologist diagnosed avian mycobacteriosis in a green imperial pigeon....
The diagnosis isn’t difficult to make. I’m looking through a microscope at a specially stained tissue section, and innumerable bright pink bacteria stand out sharply against the blue-...
If you’re from the Western U.S. and have a dog, you’ve probably heard of “fox tails.” This is a generic term referring to a number of species of spiky grasses. You wouldn...
A year ago, we were saddened by the death of our beloved 10-year-old cheetah, Teensey. Our veterinarians made the tough decision to euthanize Teensey after she was hospitalized for several...
