Wild Birds and Avian Influenza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild Birds and Avian Influenza write by Darrell Whitworth. This book was released on 2007. Wild Birds and Avian Influenza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 strain has spread from domestic poultry to a large number of species of free-ranging wild birds, including non-migratory birds and migratory birds that can travel thousands of kilometers each year. The regular contact and interaction between poultry and wild birds has increased the urgency of understanding wild bird diseases and the transmission mechanisms that exist between the poultry and wild bird sectors, with a particular emphasis on avian influenza. Monitoring techniques, surveillance, habitat use and migration patterns are all important aspects of wildlife and disease ecology that need to be better understood to gain insights into disease transmission between these sectors. This manual contains chapters on the basic ecology of avian influenza and wild birds, capture and marking techniques (ringing, color marking and satellite telemetry), disease sampling procedures, and field survey and monitoring procedures.--Publisher's description.
Wild Bird Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Surveillance
Wild Bird Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Surveillance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild Bird Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Surveillance write by Karrie Rose. This book was released on 2006. Wild Bird Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Surveillance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The purpose of this document is to provide brief guidelines on the sampling methods to use when conducting wildlife surveillance, or a morbidity / mortality investigation. Topics covered include animal handling, proper methods for collecting and transporting diagnostic samples related to investigation of avian diseases such as avian influenza, West Nile virus, and Newcastle disease."--Introd.
Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds
Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds write by Nancy J. Thomas. This book was released on 2008-01-09. Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Free-living birds encounter multiple health hazards brought on by viruses, bacteria, and fungi, some which in turn can significantly impact other animal populations and human health. Newly emerging diseases and new zoonotic forms of older diseases have brought increased global attention to the health of wild bird populations. Recognition and management of these diseases is a high priority for all those involved with wildlife. Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds provides biologists, wildlife managers, wildlife and veterinary health professionals and students with the most comprehensive reference on infectious viral, bacterial and fungal diseases affecting wild birds. Bringing together contributions from an international team of experts, the book offers the most complete information on these diseases, their history, causative agents, significance and population impact. Focusing on more than just treatment, special emphasis is given to disease processes, recognition and epidemiology.
Avian Influenza Virus
Avian Influenza Virus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Avian Influenza Virus write by Erica Spackman. This book was released on 2008-02-28. Avian Influenza Virus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the growing global fear of a major pandemic, avian influenza (AI) virus research has greatly increased in importance. In Avian Influenza Virus, an expert team of researchers and diagnosticians examine the fundamental, yet essential, virological methods for AI virus research and diagnostics as well as some of the newest molecular procedures currently used for basic and applied research. They present exciting, cutting-edge new methods that focus both on studying the virus itself and on work with avian hosts, an area greatly lacking in research.
Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds
Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds write by Jennifer C. Owen. This book was released on 2021-06-30. Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Birds are the most diverse group of land vertebrates and have evolved to exploit almost every terrestrial niche on earth. They also serve as a natural reservoir for an array of different pathogens that pose serious health risks to human and domestic animal populations, including West Nile virus, highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses, Newcastle Disease virus, and numerous enteric pathogens. Avian diseases are also critically important to the conservation of endemic bird species in many places around the world. This accessible textbook focuses on the dynamics of infectious diseases for wild avian hosts across every level of ecological hierarchy, from the way pathogens interact with the physiology and behavior of individual hosts, the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of the host-parasite interactions occurring within populations, up to the complex biotic and abiotic interactions occurring within biological communities and ecosystems. Parasite-bird interactions are also increasingly occurring in rapidly changing global environments - thus, their ecology is also changing - and this shapes the complex ways by which parasites influence the inter-connected health of birds, humans, and shared ecosystems. Given the key role of birds in ecological communities more broadly, and as the primary host to so many zoonotic pathogens, an understanding of the ecological and evolutionary principles underlying the maintenance, amplification, transmission, and dispersal of these infectious agents is crucial to understanding how to mitigate the negative global impacts of the ever-increasing number of emerging infectious diseases. Although the topics and principles discussed in this book relate to birds, they have a far wider relevance and can also be applied to non-avian, wildlife host-pathogen systems. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that understanding of disease ecology in wild animal populations is paramount to global health. Infectious Disease Ecology of Wild Birds is suitable for both senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in avian disease ecology, ecoimmunology, ecology, and conservation. It will also appeal to the many professional parasitologists, ecoimmunologists, ornithologists, behavioural ecologists, conservation biologists, and wildlife biologists requiring a concise overview of the topic.
