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Timor Sea oil spill harms sea life
Reuters - www.reuters.com
04 Sep 2009
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Location: Australia - Map It
An oil sick around 130 kilometres off Australia's coast is harming sea turtles and snakes, say fishermen.
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FWP to sample Gibson Pond ducks for avian influenza
Great Falls Tribune - www.greatfallstribune.com
03 Sep 2009
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture APHIS Wildlife Services and several other state and federal agencies, is sampling waterfowl across Montana as part of a national effort for the early detection of avian influenza.
FWP will sample ducks at Gibson Pond in Great Falls beginning this month and intermittently through November.
"The avian influenza team will collect ducks in land traps, sample them and release them unharmed," said Rose Jaffe, FWP's avian influenza project coordinator in Bozeman.
West Nile Virus Found In Brick Birds
Brick Times - bricktimes.micromediapubs.com/news
05 Sep 2009
Location: New Jersey, USA [Brick - Map It
] and [Manchester - Map It ]While the world watches for the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu, the Ocean County Health Department continues to monitor for West Nile Virus.
The Ocean County Health Department has received a positive report for West Nile Virus from two blue jays collected, one in Brick and one in Manchester on August 20.
To date, only three positive birds have been identified in New Jersey. All three are from Ocean County.
TOP READ LINKS FROM LAST WEEK
News
- Cancer in wildlife, normally rare, can signal toxic dangers
- Bat illness set to be examined
- Record year for sea lion deaths
- Save the frogs — and perhaps ourselves
- Death rate spikes among migrating whooping cranes
- New and Ongoing Wildlife Mortality Events Nationwide [USGS National Wildlife Health Center Ongoing Reports]
- Nearly 100 Pangolins Saved From Slaughter
- Bat ecologist puts his money where his bats are
- Grasshoppers Can Transmit Virus To Livestock
- World's largest bat being hunted into extinction [podcast available]
Journal Articles
- Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine [table of contents]
- Emerging Infectious Diseases [table of contents]
- Field Manual of Wildlife Disease — General Field Procedures and Diseases of Birds [manual download available]
- Wildlife Health Bulletin: Wildlife Disease Updates: White-Nose Syndrome, Avian Influenza Surveillance, Bat Rabies and other NWHC Updates [pdf]
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
Photo courtesy of The Guardian
The Week in Wildlife
- Rules aim to block wasting disease [chronic wasting disease]
- PROMED - Rabies, wolf, feline, human exposure [Ukraine - Map It
]
- Carrion birds get their chance in the spotlight
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