Disease in Wild Animals: Investigation and Management

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Springer Science & Business Media, Apr 3, 2007 - Science - 393 pages
This book arose out of teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in wildlife diseases. It, in some ways, chronicles my involvement in the inves- gation and diagnosis of diseases in free-ranging wildlife, primarily in western and northern Canada, since the 1960s. It also, perhaps, reflects the devel- ment of wildlife disease study as a discipline. Much of the earlier work in this field was purely descriptive, documenting the occurrence of various diseases in wild animals. I have chosen to retain references to some older and obscure information in this second edition because this body of work provides the foundation for a more analytical approach. The literature on health problems in free-ranging animals is expanding rapidly. I am gratified that the theor- ical and quantitative aspects of wildlife disease are receiving more attention than in the past, and that role of disease as a factor in population biology is being analyzed. My hope for the first edition of this book was that it would serve as an overview of the study of disease in wild animals and of methods that might be used to manage health problem. It was, and is, not intended to be a how-to book or an encyclopedic reference to the literature on disease; rather it is intended as a seed crystal around which the reader can build. The inquiries I have received about a second edition suggest that it has been useful.
 

Contents

Introduction
2
Special problems in working with freeliving animals
17
Disease investigation
30
Collecting population data
53
Defining environmental factors
83
Formulating and testing hypotheses
103
Samples sampling and sample collection
123
Investigation of disease outbreaks and chronic
147
Disease management through treatment and immunization 247
246
Disease management through environmental modification
271
Disease management through influencing human activities
291
Emergency and integrated management programs
309
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311
Assessing the effectiveness of a diseasemanagement program
325
Common and scientific names of animals
341
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348

Records and recordkeeping 165
164
Disease management
183
Management of the causative agentfactor or its vector
199
Disease management through manipulation of the host population
217

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