/ Ear Mites Content for °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ en /news/scientists-find-widespread-ear-tumors-%E2%80%94-and-promising-solution-%E2%80%94-endangered-catalina-island <p>Until recently, endangered foxes on California’s Catalina Island were suffering from one of the highest prevalences of tumors ever documented in a wildlife population, °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ 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 °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ study published this month in the journal PLOS ONE.</p> December 07, 2015 - 11:10am IET WebDev /news/scientists-find-widespread-ear-tumors-%E2%80%94-and-promising-solution-%E2%80%94-endangered-catalina-island