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Ward B. Stone
Researcher at New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Publications - 24
Citations - 3803
Ward B. Stone is an academic researcher from New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pseudogymnoascus destructans & Geomyces. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 24 publications receiving 3566 citations.
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Origin of the West Nile Virus Responsible for an Outbreak of Encephalitis in the Northeastern United States
Robert S. Lanciotti,John T. Roehrig,Vincent Deubel,Jonathan D. Smith,Michael W. Parker,K. Steele,B. Crise,K. E. Volpe,Mary B. Crabtree,Jacqueline H. Scherret,Roy A. Hall,John S. Mackenzie,C. B. Cropp,B. Panigrahy,Eileen N. Ostlund,B. Schmitt,M. Malkinson,C. Banet,Joel S. Weissman,Nicholas Komar,Harry M. Savage,Ward B. Stone,Tim McNamara,Duane J. Gubler +23 more
TL;DR: In late summer 1999, an outbreak of human encephalitis occurred in the northeastern United States that was concurrent with extensive mortality in crows (Corvus species) as well as the deaths of several exotic birds at a zoological park in the same area.
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Bat White-Nose Syndrome: An Emerging Fungal Pathogen?
David S. Blehert,Alan C. Hicks,Melissa Behr,Carol U. Meteyer,Brenda M. Berlowski-Zier,Elizabeth L. Buckles,Jeremy T. H. Coleman,Scott R. Darling,Andrea Gargas,Robyn Niver,Joseph C. Okoniewski,Robert J. Rudd,Ward B. Stone +12 more
TL;DR: Direct microscopy and culture analyses demonstrated that the skin of WNS-affected bats is colonized by a psychro-philic fungus that is phylogenetically related to Geomyces spp.
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West Nile virus infection in birds and mosquitoes, New York State, 2000.
Kristen A. Bernard,Joseph G. Maffei,Susan A. Jones,Elizabeth B. Kauffman,Gregory D. Ebel,Alan P. Dupuis,Kiet A. Ngo,David Nicholas,Donna Young,Pei Yong Shi,Varuni L. Kulasekera,Millicent Eidson,Dennis J. White,Ward B. Stone,Laura D. Kramer +14 more
TL;DR: West Nile (WN) virus was found throughout New York State in 2000, with the epicenter in New York City and surrounding counties, and eight mosquito species, representing four genera, were positive for WN virus.
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Poisoning of wildlife with anticoagulant rodenticides in new york
TL;DR: From 1971 through 1997, 51 cases (55 individual animals) of poisoning of non-target wildlife in New York (plus two cases in adjoining states) with anticoagulant rodenticides with brodifacoum were documented—all but two of these cases occurred in the last 8 years.
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Dead bird surveillance as an early warning system for West Nile virus.
TL;DR: Dead crow reports preceded confirmation of viral activity by several months, and WN virus-positive birds were found >3 months before the onset of human cases.