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WVA Information: Disease spillover woes
Posted by: JimEdwards on Oct 14, 2003 - 04:06 PM
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Veterinarians discuss disease interface between wildlife, domestic livestock
In Michigan, white-tailed deer and cattle roam the same fields, infecting each other with tuberculosis. In the Greater Yellowstone area, bison and elk serve as reservoirs for brucellosis, posing a threat to nearby cattle. These are just two of the many diseases at the interface between domestic livestock and wildlife species.
According to Dr. John R. Fischer, a professor of pathology and director of the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study at the University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine, interest in wildlife diseases has grown in recent years, in part because of the notoriety of diseases such as West Nile and chronic wasting disease. Dr. Fischer, along with other researchers, gathered to discuss some of these diseases at a conference at the Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, July 17-18.
Read more at: JAVMA, October 15, 2003
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