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Recognizing when you may have encountered a zoonotic disease is important for your own safety and ensures that proper samples are collected and proper cleaning and disposal procedures are followed.

Many pathogens will opportunistically infect sea otters including a number of different parasites.  Here you will see how these parasites look at necropsy as well as microscopically!