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Cyanide river spill threatens wildlife
Channel 4 News - www.channel4.com
07 Oct 2009
Location: Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom - Map It
The Environment Agency is investigating how untreated sewage and cyanide made its way into one of the country's major rivers.
Thousands of fish have already died and the agency says more wildlife is at risk in the River Trent in Staffordshire.
. . . The agency said it is hoping for a "swift resolution" to the incident and was monitoring the contamination.
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USDA offers plan for Yellowstone animal disease
Forbes - www.forbes.com
07 Oct 2009
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking comments on a proposal to designate the Yellowstone region as a special management zone for the animal disease brucellosis.
In the past, infections in cattle led the USDA to impose to statewide trade restrictions. Under the new proposal, the Yellowstone area would be separated from the rest of the three states for purposes of managing the disease.
Cameras show devilish nightsABC News - www.abc.net.au
07 Oct 2009
Photo courtesy of ABC News
Tasmania's Save the Devil program has new insight into how the animals behave in free range enclosures.
. . . It seems the devils are behaving exactly as they would in the wild.
Devil Island was opened 16 months ago as another measure to protect the endangered species against the deadly facial tumour disease.
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- Frogs paying the price for wetlands development
- Bounty set on wild pigs
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- Virus Hunters Find Ebola, Marburg Source in Fruit Bat [Journal Article Cited]
Photo credit: Neils Photography/Flicker
- Albatross cam for bird's eye view [Journal Article Cited; for related story with video, click here]
- ‘Leopard Behind You!’ [animal vocabulary]
- Inferior males get lucky with the birds [Journal Article Cited]
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
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Lethal pneumonia in a captive juvenile chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) due to human-transmitted human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) and infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae
J Med Primatol. 2009 Aug;38(4):236-40. Epub 2009 Feb 23
CA Szentiks et al.
Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine - Zoonotic Infections: An Emerging Threat to Human Health - Oct 2009
Volume 76, Issue 5
Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs
PLoS ONE 4(9): e7288 [free full-text available]
EDS Wolff et al.
Parasitic zoonoses at the rodent-captive primate-human health interface
J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 2009 Aug;39(2):447-60
HM Elsheikha et al.
Avian influenza surveillance in wild migratory, resident, domestic birds and in poultry in Maharashtra and Manipur, India, during avian migratory season 2006-07
Current Science. 2009 Aug 25; 97 (4): 550-554 [free full-text available][pdf]
S Pawar et al.
