Happy World Sea Turtle Day! In honor of the occasion, dive into these 3 articles on the latest veterinary medicine findings surrounding these mystical marine animals.
From an initiative striving to help save sea turtles to a therapy used in human medicine that can treat toxic red tide exposure—there's something for everyone. Happy reading!
- Patterson Veterinary celebrates World Sea Turtle Day 2022: Patterson Veterinary has collaborated with Sea Turtle Conservancy in recognition of World Sea Turtle Day to support its mission of ensuring the survival of sea turtles.
- National Aquarium celebrates 350 animals rehabilitated and released: Since its inception in 1991, the National Aquarium reached this milestone with the recent release of 11 sea turtles off the North Carolina coast.
- Drug for human overdoses treats sea turtles with brevetoxicosis: Research has revealed that therapy used to treat human drug overdoses—intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE)—is effective in treating sea turtles suffering from toxic red tide exposure.