| epizootiologic studies of avian vacuolar myelinopathy in waterbirds. | epizootic avian vacuolar myelinopathy (avm) was first recognized as a neurologic disease in bald eagles (haliaeetus leucocephalus) and american coots (fulica americana) in arkansas, usa in 1994 and 1996, respectively, but attempts to identify the etiology of the disease have been unsuccessful to date. between 1998 and 2001, wing clipped sentinel birds (wild american coots and game farm mallards [anas platyrhynchos]) were released at lake surf, north carolina, a lake with recurrent outbreaks of a ... | 2002 | 12528432 |
| avian vacuolar myelinopathy outbreaks at a southeastern reservoir. | avian vacuolar myelinopathy (avm) is a neurologic disease of unknown etiology that affects bald eagles (haliaeetus leucocephalus), american coots (fulica americana), and several species of waterfowl. an unidentified neurotoxin is suspected as the cause of avm, which has been documented at several reservoirs in the southeastern united states. we conducted diagnostic and epidemiologic studies annually during october-march from 1998-2004 at clarks hill/strom thurmond lake on the georgia/south carol ... | 2006 | 17092880 |
| epizootic vacuolar myelinopathy of the central nervous system of bald eagles (haliaeetus leucocephalus) and american coots (fulica americana). | unprecedented mortality occurred in bald eagles (haliaeetus leucocephalus) at degray lake, arkansas, during the winters of 1994-1995 and 1996-1997. the first eagles were found dead during november, soon after arrival from fall migration, and deaths continued into january during both episodes. in total, 29 eagles died at or near degray lake in the winter of 1994-1995 and 26 died in the winter of 1996-1997; no eagle mortality was noted during the same months of the intervening winter or in the ear ... | 1998 | 9823589 |