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Study to track brucellosis in elk
Is the rise in brucellosis among elk related to their increasing concentration on private lands as they avoid hunters and predators?
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is hoping to get an answer from a five-year study being launched around the Greater Yellowstone Area, where the contagious disease is confined.
“We haven't identified specific causations, but there are similarities” to Wyoming's feedgrounds, said Quentin Kujala, FWP's wildlife management section chief.
Billings Gazette - billingsgazette.com
05 Dec 2010
B French
The State of Texas is making final preparations to destroy a Hunt County herd of 75 captive deer on Monday.
Officials with Texas Parks and Wildlife say it’s a precaution against introducing a devastating illness into the state called chronic wasting disease, or CWD.
CWD has been compared to mad cow disease.
WFAA-TV - www.wfaa.com
02 Dec 2010
D Schechter
Reported Wildlife Mortality Events to the USGS National Wildlife Health Center UpdatedUSGS and a network of partners across the country work on documenting wildlife mortality events in order to provide timely and accurate information on locations, species and causes of death. This information was updated on December 03, 2010 on the USGS National Wildlife Health Center web page, New and Ongoing Wildlife Mortality Events Nationwide. Quarterly Mortality Reports are also available from this page. These reports go back to 1995.
USGS National Wildlife Health Center
06 Dec 2010
Area: United States
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
- Coal Tar Sealant Largest Source of PAHs in Lakes [USGS]
- Taxpayers to pay $30m more a year to control cow TB [New Zealand]
- Just warm enough [Mammals' body temperatures may represent balance between warding off fungi and limiting food needs]
- Fur seal cubs clubbed to death in New Zealand - Ohau Point, South Island, New Zealand - Map It
- Sea lion Na'au roams Oakley [acute domoic acid poisoning] - Oakley, Contra Costa County, California, USA - Map It
- Lincoln Park Zoo builds blood type database for apes
- Primates Are More Resilient Than Other Animals to Environmental Ups and Downs
- Mystery of the mutant baby bats [06 Nov 2010]
- Space technology maps out a future for wildlife [28 Oct 2010]
Scientists aim to map and save endangered habitats- Sumatran 'Tiger Map' Reveals Tiger Population Higher Than Expected
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