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 KIT FOX DISEASES 

The San Joaquin Kit Fox is a small federally endangered carnivore whose distribution is limited which is mainly located in the California area. Their population is decreasing more and more and the remaining populations are in a critical situation. One of the largest and strongest populations recorded is found in the city of Bakersfield. The decrease in their population is due to some diseases that have appeared. In spring of 2013, the first symptoms of psoriasis began to appear in this population. Psoriasis is a contagious skin condition caused by the scabies mite and characterized by very intense pruritus and dermatitis, caused by mites burrowing into the epidermal layers, as well as alopecia, hyperkeratosis, and encrustations, secondary bacterial infections, and finally extreme morbidity and death. Of the number of foxes that were marked with psoriasis, almost half were found dead, while the rest entered the process of their treatment. In the course of their treatment, most of them ended and only a very small percentage managed to be cured.