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The Mystery of the Dying Eagles - Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy - Brief Article

Endangered Species Bulletin, Sept, 2000 by Russell D. Jeffers

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Although a specific cause of AVM has not yet been isolated, many of the gaps are beginning to fill. Since the initial description of the disease in 1994, a great deal of information has been uncovered. We now know that the situation in Arkansas was not an isolated incident and that AVM has a wide distribution in the southern U.S. We also now believe that AVM existed prior to the 1994 Arkansas incident. It has been determined that AVM is not a prion-related disease, like "mad-cow disease," but is more likely the result of exposure to a synthetic or naturally occurring toxicant. We suspect that AVM is acquired at specific sites and that the onset of the disease can be fairly rapid. Therefore, birds that move into an AVM site may relatively quickly be affected by the disease.

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If anyone has additional information or suspects that AVM may have struck again, please contact the National Wildlife Health Center at 608-270-2448.

Russell D. Jeffers is a Toxicologist in the Service's Charleston, South Carolina, Field Office.

The Mystery of the Dying Eagles - Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy - Brief Article

Endangered Species Bulletin, Sept, 2000 by Russell D. Jeffers

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