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Ear Mites Content for 麻豆传媒enScientists outfox ear tumors in endangered Catalina Island foxes
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<p>Until recently, endangered foxes on California鈥檚 Catalina Island were suffering from one of the highest prevalences of tumors ever documented in a wildlife population, 麻豆传媒 scientists have found. But treatment of ear mites appears to be helping the wild animals recover.</p>
<p>Roughly half of adult foxes examined between 2001 and 2008 had tumors in their ears, with about two-thirds of those malignant, according to a 麻豆传媒 study published this month in the journal PLOS ONE.</p>December 07, 2015 - 11:10amIET WebDev/news/scientists-find-widespread-ear-tumors-%E2%80%94-and-promising-solution-%E2%80%94-endangered-catalina-island