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Our Cousins Are Sick
Discover Magazine Blog - blogs.discovermagazine.com
02 Apr 2009
C Zimmer
In the last month, a flu epidemic has hit the bonobo sanctuary where we work: Lola ya bonobo (www.friendsofbonobos.org). It is the only bonobo sanctuary in the world, with over 60 orphans from the bushmeat trade.
The virus has infected over 20 bonobos and counting, and has already killed four. Another 3 have died, we aren’t sure of the cause, so it could be as many as seven, which means the sanctuary has already lost over a tenth of its population.
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Whale washes ashore
Delmarva Now - www.delmarvanow.com
04 Apr 2009
C Vaughn
Location: Assateague Island, Accomack County Virginia - Map It
and Worchester County, Maryland, USA - Map It The carcass of a 50-foot-long female humpback whale washed ashore last Tuesday on the northern Virginia portion of Assateague Island, and another large humpback whale stranded farther north in the Maryland portion the same day.
It was the first humpback whale stranding on Assateague since the late 1980s, Amanda Daisey, wildlife biologist with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday.
More Marine Mammal News
>>> Dead whale calf washes up on Sunset Beach [Sunset Beach, Orange County, California, USA - Map It ]
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Bat-killing fungus at Maryland's bordersBaltimore Sun - www.baltimoresun.com
05 Apr 2009
FD Roylance
White-nose syndrome, a deadly fungal infection that has devastated bat populations in New York and New England in the past two years, has now spread to three states on Maryland's borders - and seems poised to strike here next, biologists say. . .
An outbreak here could destroy one of the largest hibernating populations surviving in the East of the globally rare Eastern small-footed myotis and gradually wipe out larger bat populations that help to control Maryland's insect pests.
Surveys of 10 Maryland hibernation sites this winter found no signs of the disease. But after reports in recent months that it has struck in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia, biologists fear that its appearance in this state is only a matter of time.
>>> FULL ARTICLE
[includes photos, map and video]
More White-Nose Syndrome News
>>> Georgia might close caves to protect bats
>>> Tourist Caves Exempt From Bat Disease Restriction
>>> Going to bat for bats [concern about cavers spreading WNS]
[includes photos, map and video]
More White-Nose Syndrome News
>>> Georgia might close caves to protect bats
>>> Tourist Caves Exempt From Bat Disease Restriction
>>> Going to bat for bats [concern about cavers spreading WNS]
The fragility of the world's coral is revealed through a study of the Northwestern Hawaiian IslandsEurek Alert - www.eurekalert.org
06 Apr 2009
A new study by researchers from UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) sheds light on how threats to the world's endangered coral reef ecosystems can be more effectively managed.
In a recent issue of the journal Coral Reefs, lead authors Kimberly A. Selkoe and Benjamin S. Halpern, both of NCEAS, explain how their maps of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) –– a vast area stretching over 1,200 miles –– can be used to make informed decisions about protecting the world's fragile reefs.
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH NEWS
Photo courtesy of The Guardian - Climate change may increase disease risk[podcast]
- Birds in the News - Issue 166
- Locking Parasites In Host Cell Could Be New Way To Fight Malaria
- The week in wildlife [image gallery]
- Elephant seals help monitor climate change: Long-distance swims and dives give researchers data about Antarctica
- Viruses Used to Grow "Greener" Batteries [NPR audio broadcast][interesting tidbit]
- Senate bill targets Idaho bighorn sheep
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED ARTICLES
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Campylobacter jejuni in penguins, Antarctica [letter]
Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 May; [Epub ahead of print][free full-text available][pdf]
P Griekspoor et al.
Toward Immunogenetic Studies of Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: Linking Innate and Acquired Immunity
BioScience. 2009; 59(4):311-320
JQ Richmond et al.
Modeling fish health to inform research and management: Renibacterium salmoninarum dynamics in Lake Michigan
Ecological Applications. 2009; 19(3): 747-760
EP Fenichel et al.
GeoHealth - Winter 2008/2009
Vol. 6, No. 2
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