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Herd infected with Chronic Wasting Disease 'depopulated'
WZZM13 - www.wzzm13.com
27 Aug 2008
Image courtesy of Michigan DNR
Area: Kent County, Michigan United States
By killing and testing all 50 animals on a Kent County deer farm, scientists hope to learn how a doe was infected with chronic wasting disease and if any others in the herd are also sick. The first case of C-W-D in Michigan was found on an Algoma Township farm. The diagnosis was confirmed Monday. Tuesday evening government sharpshooters "depopulated" the herd by killing the other 50 deer on the farm.
Human TB strain jumps to animals
The Times - www.thetimes.co.za
28 Aug 2008
Area: South Africa - Map It
South Africa’s tuberculosis epidemic has jumped from humans to pets, zoo animals and wildlife. The human strain of the disease has been found in springbok, mongooses, baboons, chimpanzees and, most recently, a Maltese poodle. Worldwide, the human strain of the disease, mycobacterium TB, is rare in animals, who are more commonly infected with another strain, Mycobacterium bovis.
DNR still searching for cause of dead deer along Clinton River
Detroit Free Press - www.freep.com
28 Aug 2008
E Sharp
Area: Oakland County, Michigan, USA - Map It
While kayakers and canoeists have found about 20 dead dear along a six-mile stretch of the Clinton River centered on Bloomer Park in Rochester, DNR officials said Thursday that the animals were not infected with chronic wasting disease or any other wildlife disease that they have been able to identify. Tim Payne a biologist for the Department of Natural Resources wildlife division in Southfield, said the deer apparently started dying about three weeks ago but that no freshly-dead deer had been found dead in the last week. We sent three of the (carcasses) to our lab in Lansing, but only one of them was really fresh enough for a definitive necropsy,” Payne said. “Two people saw deer die in front of them. Something obviously has affected them, but we don’t know what it is yet.”
Dark water deemed safe, but some not chancing it in Indian River CountyTCPalm - www.tcpalm.com
28 Aug 2008
Area: Indian River County, Florida, USA - Map It
. . . Joanna Webb is an Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge ranger who monitors beaches around the Sebastian Inlet. So far, there are some dead fish — about one every 100 feet — on beaches south of the inlet. A dead opossum also washed up. North of the inlet, a juvenile green sea turtle washed up on the beaches and died of unknown causes, according to a park ranger. At the moment, “I am not alarmed,” Webb said. She is concerned about what could happen to wildlife in the long run from exposure to urban and agricultural pollutants flowing in from the land. “It can carry in chemical residue from lawns and pollution from roads and vehicles,” she said. “It all gets washed into the lagoon.”
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Image courtesy of Allan Michaud
Pictured: Threatened Monkey Populations Surprisingly Large- Stranded porpoise sent to Vancouver rescue facility - Map It
- ANIMAL PHOTOS WEEKLY: Albino Whale, Baby Giraffe, More
- Viruses short-circuit the deep-sea food chain
- 'Cold feet' may halt toad march
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
Emerging Infectious Diseases - September 2008
Volume 14, Number 9,
Environmental and Ecological Statistics - March 2008
Special Issue on the New Development of Statistical Analysis in Wildlife, Fisheries, and Ecological Research
Volume 15, Number 1
Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers
Newsletter - June 2008 [Upcoming Annual Conference Meeting Information, Oct 27th - Oct 30th]
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