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No evident disease in deer die-off along Clinton River
Freep.com
28 Aug 2008
E Sharp
About 20 dead deer found by kayakers and canoeists along a six-mile stretch of the Clinton River centered on Bloomer Park in Rochester were not infected with chronic wasting disease or any other wildlife disease they have been able to identify, Department of Natural Resources officials said Thursday.
Unusual whale and dolphin wash up on the Scilly Isles
WildlifeExtra.com - www.wildlifeextra.com
Sep 08
Location: Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom - Map It
Two highly unusual marine mammals have been washed up on the western shores of the Isle of St Agnes within days of one another.
Sadly, both animals were already dead but this provided a unique opportunity for local scientists to examine them. A very rare female Sowerby's beaked whale was washed up at Periglis. These are normally deep water species, feeding on squid and cuttlefish. At nearly 12 feet long, this animal was too big to be taken for postmortem.
Tuberculosis - South Africa (02): human to animal transmission
ProMed Mail - www.promedmail.com
30 Aug 2008
In response to this posting on human to animal transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis [Tuberculosis - South Africa: human to animal transmission 20080827.2680] I would like to add some clarifying comments.
It is a well known and documented fact that human tuberculosis can be transmitted to domestic animals including pets wherever they live in close
contact. The isolation rate of _M. tuberculosis_ from slaughter pigs with lymphadenitis in South Africa, especially during the 2nd half of the previous century, was witness to the increasing infection rate in the human population.
Plague threatens prairie dogs, endangered ferretsmsnbc - www.msnbc.com (source associated press)
30 Aug 2008
On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets.
The deadly disease sylvatic plague was discovered in May in a huge prairie dog town in the Conata Basin. The black-tailed prairie dog is the main prey of ferrets, and the disease quickly killed up to a third of the area's 290 ferrets along with prairie dogs.
LAST WEEK'S TOP READ LINKS
- Wind Turbines Kill Bats Without Impact
- Man Suffers from 1,415 Diseases; Blames His Gorilla Meat Diet
- Bears: Handle With Care
- Evidence of Infection by H5N2 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in Healthy Wild Waterfowl [journal article]
- Birds 'off the pace' with warming
- H7N3 reported in Rhode Island
- Infected Galápagos Penguins Could Get Avian Malaria
- Pregnancy test leaves at-risk frogs holding the baby
- Michigan's First Case of Chronic Wasting Disease Detected at Kent County Deer Breeding Facility
- Passive Immunity to West Nile Virus Provides Limited Protection in a Common Passerine Species
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH NEWS
Photo courtesy of BBC News
Effective September 1, Feeding Deer Will Be Illegal in Virginia - Poor training raises outbreak risk, agency says
- Whatever happened to . . . fish-killing disease in Lake Erie appears not to be spreading beyond Great Lakes watershed
- Q&A: The frog-killer fungus
- CDC confirms hantavirus killed Ellensburg officer
- Melting Arctic Ice Imperils Polar Bears [audio broadcast - 4 min 35 sec]
- Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary In Fair Condition, Facing Emerging Threats
- Little devils throw a lifeline to threatened species
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