September 30, 2008

TOP STORIES

VIDEO: Pesticides Killing Flamingos?
National Geographic News - news.nationalgeographic.com
25 Sep 2008
Image courtesy of www.kenya-advisor.com
Area: Lake Nakuru, Kenya - Map It

Tests of the pink birds, which live in Kenya's Lake Nakuru, show heavy metals and pesticides—leading experts to suspect growing industry as the cause.





New Astroviruses Identified In Bats
ScienceDaily - www.sciencedaily.com (Source: American Society for Microbiology)
26 Sep 2008

New research out of The University of Hong Kong, China and the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, Hong Kong suggests that bats are reservoirs of a newly identified group of astroviruses, a significant agent of diarrhea in many species including humans. Bats are known to harbor many human zoonotic diseases such as Nipah, Ebola, and SARS and are increasingly recognized as hosts to a wide range of viruses, most of which establish long-term persistence in the animals. Astroviruses are associated with gastroenteritis in a variety of mammals including humans, but most commonly afflict children, the elderly and immunocompromised patients. Until now, most studies of astroviruses have focused on humans and domesticated animals, so little is known about potential carriers in wildlife.





Saving Sea Lions
KQED - www.kqed.org
29 Sep 2008
Image courtesy of U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Area: California, United States - Map It

As emblematic of Northern California as cable cars and cracked crab, sea lions are a big attraction at San Francisco's Pier 39 and Monterey's Cannery Row. But many of these animals are getting sick from a bacterial infection that seems to be on the rise this year.

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Suffering in silence
New Zealand Herald - www.nzherald.co.nz
27 Sep 2008
Area: New Zealand - Map It

Dr Phil Bishop is happy. Some frogs have croaked, as in died. Why does that bring a smile to his face? Because he is confident he can isolate the cause of death, in this case a fungus he has been researching for the past five years. In August, a Dunedin enthusiast bought several green and golden bell frogs, an introduced species, from a supplier in the North Island where the amphibians live, only to discover they have been dying at regular intervals. The good news is, some are still alive.



OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Image courtesy of WCN

Pictured: Painted Dog population falls 99%, but community efforts could save species
West Nile found in Norwood bird - Norwood, Massachusetts, USA - Map It
Promising signs on abalone virus
Biting back against rabies - Malawi - Map It
Chronic Wasting Disease testing finds more than 500 deer clean
Diagnosing Snake Inclusion Body Disease and the Value of a Snake Necropsy
Woman ‘given bovine TB by garden badger'
Is it viable to explore bushmeat?
Lake County residents advised to bury dead fish - Lakeport, Lake County, California, USA - Map It


WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Evolutionary Dynamics and Emergence of Panzootic H5N1 Influenza Viruses
PLoS Pathogens. 2008; 4(9): e1000161 [free full-text available]
D Vijaykrishna et al.

Cross-Species Virus Transmission and the Emergence of New Epidemic Diseases
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 2008 Sep; 72(3): 457-470
[online abstract only]
CR Parrish

Crossing the Species Barrier by PrPSc Replication In Vitro Generates Unique
Infectious Prions
Cell. 2008 Sep 05; 134: 757-768 [online abstract only]
J Castilla et al.

European Journal of Wildlife Research - October 2008
Volume 54, Number 4

Emerging Infectious Diseases - October 2008
Volume 14, Number 10

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