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NBC Bay Area News - www.nbcbayarea.com
20 Jul 2009
L Salisbury
Photo credit: Josh Keppel
Area: California, USA
. . . Scientists are still trying to figure out why so many sea lions are coming ashore. Sphorer has noticed an increase in 1-year-old sea lions washing ashore injured or malnourished.
“It's sad,” said Martucelli. “You used to never see dead sea lions at the beach.”
Not all of the stories of sick sea lions have a sad ending. Over the weekend, experts with the Marine Mammal Center released six rehabilitated sea lions back into the San Francisco Bay, along with other sea birds and creatures that they have nursed back to health.
Zambezi fish disease threatens livelihood of many Zambians
EarthTimes - www.earthtimes.org
21 Jul 2009
Area: Zambezi River Valley, Africa - Map It
A killer disease is decimating fish stocks in the Zambezi River Valley, threatening the food security and livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people in an area shared by seven southern African countries, a United Nations agency said Tuesday. The most affected country is Zambia, where two thirds of the Zambezi River Basin lies, the Rome-based Food an Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
. . . The disease, known as Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome, or EUS, is caused by the fungus Aphanomyces invadans, which forms ugly lesions on fish and has a high rate of mortality.
OTHER WILDLIFE RELATED NEWS
Photo courtesy of Associated Press
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- Diversification of West Nile virus in a subtropical region
- Group hunting for solutions [CWD, Wisconsin]
- Hurricane Ike's Effects On Waterways, Fish Contamination Analyzed
- Infectious salmon anemia - Chile (02): origin
- Don't Blame Birds for 1918 Flu
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
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Journal of Wildlife Diseases - July 2009
Vol. 45, No. 3
Large-scale spatio-temporal shifts in the diet of a predator mediated by an emerging infectious disease of its main prey
Journal of Biogeography. 2009 Mar; 36 (8): 1502 - 1515
Marcos Moleón et al.
Sea ice-associated diet change increases the levels of chlorinated and brominated contaminants in polar bears
Environ Sci Technol. 2009 Jun 15;43(12):4334-9
MA Mckinney et al.
Identifying the species-origin of faecal droppings used for avian influenza virus surveillance in wild-birds
J Clin Virol. 2009 Jul 13. [Epub ahead of print]
PP Cheung et al.
MLVA-16 typing of 295 marine mammal Brucella isolates from different animal and geographic origins identifies 7 major groups within Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis
BMC Microbiology. 2009 Jul 20. [Epub ahead of print]
M Maquart et al.
