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Crowds flock to see Whale washed up on North Wales beach
Daily Post - www.dailypost.co.uk
12 Oct 2009
S Bagnall
Area: Wales, United Kingdom - Map It

CROWDS of people turned out to catch a glimpse of a dead whale found beached hundreds of miles from its natural home.

The magnificent North Atlantic bottlenose whale was discovered behind Presthaven Sands, at Gronant Sands, Prestatyn, on Saturday.

Its home is hundreds of miles away near the Arctic Circle and Finland – so its appearance over in North Wales was the talk of the town.

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Farmers calling for cull of Manitoba's wild elk after rise in cases of bovine TB
Google News - www.google.com (Source: Canadian Press)
12 Oct 2009
C Puxley
Area: Manitoba, Canada

Cattle and wild elk have lived side-by-side for well over a century around Riding Mountain National Park in western Manitoba.

But the elk have a habit of grazing in cattle pastures bordering the park, sharing hay with cattle and drinking from the same streams.

That has led to a rise recently in the number of cases of bovine tuberculosis. In the last eight years, 43 elk and 10 white-tailed deer have tested positive for the disease.

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Rabbit killer disease puts Hayling islanders on alert
The News - www.portsmouth.co.uk
12 Oct 2009
J Travis
Area: Hayling Island, England, United Kingdom - Map It

Rabbit owners are being warned to vaccinate their pets after a killer virus swept across a coastal community.

Scores of wild rabbits have succumbed to myxomatosis on Hayling Island.

Dozens of dead animals have been spotted at Hayling Golf Club and at North Common, a beauty spot frequented by walkers.

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Reported Wildlife Mortality Events to the USGS National Wildlife Health Center Updated
USGS National Wildlife Health Center
05 Jun 2007 [change this date to current date]
Area: United States

USGS 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 May 31, 2007 [change this date to current date] 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.

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Protecting Humans And Animals From Diseases In Wildlife
ScienceDaily - www.sciencedaily.com (Source: University of Nottingham)
09 Oct 2009

Avian influenza (H5N1), rabies, plague, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), and more recently swine flu (H1N1) are all examples of diseases that have made the leap from animals to humans.

As the list continues to grow, experts at The University of Nottingham are to lead a project aimed at developing a state-of-the-art pan-European surveillance system to monitor emerging and re-emerging infections in wildlife.

Sixty one per cent of known pathogens are zoonotic — diseases that have crossed over from animals to humans — but our knowledge and understanding of the prevalence of disease in wildlife and the ecology, transmission and evolution of disease in animals is still limited.

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