Parasitology

Forbes

A parasite often spread by domestic and wild cats is a cause of abortions, or pregnancy loss, as well as neonatal deaths in big horn sheep, according to a study led by WSU researchers.

Microbiology student Jazmyne Jackson screens for Myxobolus cerebralis, a parasite that lives in the bone and cartilage of fish, in WADDL.

Dr. Laura Williams, a licensed veterinarian at the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at WSU, is one of fewer than 50 veterinarians in the U.S. board certified in parasitology by the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists (ACVM) and the only one in Washington.