05-08-2024, 07:48 PM
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/science/toxoplasmosis
Looks like it could take awhile if they have to grow it in a lab to confirm it. This is the lab the bird was sent to.
How do you detect it?
Determining whether toxoplasmosis is the cause of death requires a necropsy and microscopic examination of tissues (typically heart, brain, lung, or spleen) for the parasite in the laboratory. Attempts can also be made to grow the parasite from tissue samples in the laboratory. For microscopic examination, tissues must be preserved in 10% neutral buffered formalin. For culture of the parasite, tissues must be submitted fresh to the laboratory.
The last sentence in the article:
How do you manage it?
In Hawaii and other Pacific islands, eliminate cats from the habitat, and you eliminate toxoplasmosis.
Looks like it could take awhile if they have to grow it in a lab to confirm it. This is the lab the bird was sent to.
How do you detect it?
Determining whether toxoplasmosis is the cause of death requires a necropsy and microscopic examination of tissues (typically heart, brain, lung, or spleen) for the parasite in the laboratory. Attempts can also be made to grow the parasite from tissue samples in the laboratory. For microscopic examination, tissues must be preserved in 10% neutral buffered formalin. For culture of the parasite, tissues must be submitted fresh to the laboratory.
The last sentence in the article:
How do you manage it?
In Hawaii and other Pacific islands, eliminate cats from the habitat, and you eliminate toxoplasmosis.