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Efforts fail to halt pneumonia outbreak in sheep
Wildlife officials will let a pneumonia outbreak run its course through a herd of bighorn sheep west of Anaconda after killing dozens of sick animals failed to keep the disease in check.
There are no known vaccines to prevent pneumonia in bighorn sheep, which is usually fatal for the animals, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials said Tuesday. Instead, wildlife officials kill sick sheep to prevent other animals from being exposed.
The agency has killed 44 bighorn sheep in the herd of about 300 animals west of Anaconda since confirming the pneumonia outbreak in August. But FWP officials say the outbreak has now spread beyond management control.
Billings Gazette - billingsgazette.com [Source: Associated Press]
09 Nov 2010
Location: Deer Lodge County, Montana, USA - Map It 
Deadly Bat Illness Spreads
Populations of some bat species that traditionally hibernate in New York have declined more than 90 percent due to disease.
White Nose Syndrome (WNS), a condition linked to a large-scale bat die-off, has now been documented in 32 caves and mines in New York, according to a recently completed survey by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
The disease was first discovered in some New York caves in winter 2006-07. This latest survey, conducted in early 2010 when bats were in hibernation, determined that the fungal disease has continued to spread.
My Fox New York - www.myfoxny.com
10 Nov 2010
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Volume 5, Issue 4
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- Main Article - Wildlife Disease Information Node: Activities Update/ pg. 1 - 2
- Upcoming Wildlife Disease Related Events/ pg. 1
- Spotlight on a Disease: White-nose Syndrome Resources Available through WDIN Website/ pg. 2
- New Resources Added to the WDIN Website/ pg. 3
- Subscriptions to the Wildlife Disease News Digest Continue to Increase/ pg. 3
- News Digest Email and RSS Subscriber Statistics/ pg. 3
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Photo credit: The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research- Anthrax, wildlife - South Africa (02): (Kruger NP): Vultures do not deserve castigation as spreaders of anthrax
- Notice of Determination of the High Pathogenic Avian Influenza Subtype H5N1 Status of Czech Republic and Sweden
- Law banning use of lead shot in duck hunts ignored [England]
- Illegal tiger trade kills 1,000 in a decade: study
- Bigger Isn't Always Better for Wildlife Reserves
- Hope for Borneo's Threatened Biodiversity
- MNR testing for wasting disease [Ontario, Canada]
- Tests confirm bacterial disease brucellosis in a single cattle herd in northern Wyoming [Park County, Wyoming, USA]
Gulf Oil Spill
- Where's the Gulf oil? In the food web, study says
- Oil spill's toxic trade-off: Dispersed oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster could be more dangerous to wildlife than reports suggest
Acidifying Oceans
