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Oodinium, a genus of parasitic dinoflagellates, causes velvet disease in fish. Velvet disease (also called gold-dust, rust and coral disease) is a fish disease caused by dinoflagellate parasites of the genera Amyloodinium in marine fish, and Oodinium in freshwater fish. The disease gives infected organisms a dusty, brownish-gold color. The ...
Tennessee — Skelton died from a snake bite during a religious service in Cleveland. [120] June 22, 1943 Jerry Frier, 7, male: Rattlesnake: Florida — Frier died from rattlesnake bite in Lafayette County. [121] May 1, 1942 Dorothy Louise Key, 8, female: Rattlesnake: Florida — Bitten while walking in woods near her home in Bradenton. [122 ...
Like humans and other animals, fish suffer from diseases and parasites.Fish defences against disease are specific and non-specific. Non-specific defences include skin and scales, as well as the mucus layer secreted by the epidermis that traps microorganisms and inhibits their growth.
Onychophora / ɒ n ɪ ˈ k ɒ f ə r ə / (from Ancient Greek: ονυχής, onyches, "claws"; and φέρειν, pherein, "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (for their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more ambiguously as peripatus / p ə ˈ r ɪ p ə t ə s / (after the first described genus, Peripatus), is a phylum of elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged animals.
Cats of all shapes and sizes have come down with bird flu.. First there were barn cats that drank raw milk.In recent days, 20 wild cats at a Washington State animal sanctuary that probably ate ...
The snake hung on and bruised her leg after the second strike. The punctures were lacerated and tourniquets applied, but the treatment was ineffective, and Miss Townson died at 4.30 am on Thursday. Numerous hikers took turns carrying her body by litter 24 miles in 18 hours to get her down off the mountain.
A disease which can kill cats, both domestic and wild, has been discovered for the first time in the US. A variant of the rustrela virus-- related to the wider-known rubella virus which causes a ...
[1] [2] Most bites are on the hands, arms, or legs. [2] [10] Fear following a bite is common with symptoms of a racing heart and feeling faint. [2] The venom may cause bleeding, kidney failure, a severe allergic reaction, tissue death around the bite, or breathing problems. [1] [3] Bites may result in the loss of a limb or other chronic ...