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North Country Public Radio - www.northcountrypublicradio.org
18 Aug 2009
Photo credit: Brian Mann
State Conservation biologist Al Hicks says the old Graphite Mine in the town of Hague near Lake George has seen its population of Little Brown bats nearly wiped out.
Hicks spoke over the weekend at a gathering of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy in Newcomb.
He said the hibernaculum – which sits in a Nature Conservancy Preserve — has been infected by a deadly bat disease called “white nose syndrome.”
Hendra virus risk rises as bats move south
Brisbane Times - www.brisbanetimes.com.au
17 Aug 2009
Area: New South Wales, Australia
The potential for an outbreak of the Hendra virus in NSW has increased as the carriers of the disease, flying foxes, move further south to as far as Melbourne.
Ecologist Lesley Hughes said climate change was a major contributor to the southern migration of bats commonly found along Queensland's coast.
Professor Hughes, from Sydney's Macquarie University, said the common black flying fox and grey headed flying fox had migrated up to 800 kilometres south since the 1930s.
Wis. health department warns of West Nile virus
Chicago Tribune - www.chicagotribune.com (Source: Associated Press)
17 Aug 2009
Area: Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA - Map It
and Portage County, Wisconsin, USA - Map It A pair of infected birds are serving as a reminder that the West Nile virus is in Wisconsin this year.
State and county health officials said Monday that two birds have tested positive for West Nile virus, one in Milwaukee County and the other in Portage County.
They are the first animals to test positive in the state this year.
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Photo credit: ANU
Aussie ecology in for a shock
- Climate Change Could Harm Lake Fish: Light Determines Growth Of Fish In Lakes
- Salwan: Rabies a worldwide threat
- Lyme disease cases rising [United States]
- Kenya losing 100 lions every year: conservation group
- Bird brains prove to be very sexy
- Honey-bee Aggression Study Suggests Nurture Alters Nature
- Protection plan deep-sea coral reefs considered [23,000 square miles, United States]
- World's rarest tree kangaroo gets help from those who once hunted it
- First Gene-encoded Amphibian Toxin Isolated
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
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Chances and limitations of wild bird monitor ing for the avian influenza virus H5N1--detection of pathogens highly mobile in time and space
PLoS One. 2009 Aug 14;4(8):e6639
H Wilking et al.
A habitat-based model for the spread of hantavirus between reservoir and spillover species
J Theor Biol. 2009 Jul 16. [Epub ahead of print]
LJ Allen et al.
The value of avian genomics to the conservation of wildlife
BMC Genomics. 2009 Jul 14;10 Suppl 2:S10
MN Romanov et al.
What is your diagnosis? Blood smear from an injured red-tailed hawk
Vet Clin Pathol. 2009 Jun;38(2):247-52. Epub 2008 Oct 28
JK Johns et al.
Coquillettidia (Culicidae, Diptera) mosquitoes are natural vectors of avian malaria in Africa
Malar J. 2009 Aug 10;8(1):193. [Epub ahead of print]
KY Njabo et al.
