BWDS

Belgium   

• Illegal import of mufflons in Wallonia

• New study highlights Belgium’s role as wildlife trade hub

• Abstract book 7th BWDS symposium "Foodborne pathogens"
• ASF: Update, 22 October 2018 (Dutch, French)
• ASF: spread, impact (05 october 2018)
• ASF spread (15 sept 2018)
• Update ASF Belgium 14 sept 2018
• Outbreak African Swine Fever in Wallonia, 13 october 2018
• EFSA video on African Swine Fever
• A distemper outbreak in beech martens in Flanders
• Re-emergence of canine distemper in Belgium
• HP AI H5N8 in wildfowl in Limburg
• Schistosomiasis import infection
• AI monitoring 2016 (in Dutch)
• Recent HP AI findings and measures   
• Influenza HP H5N8 in ornamental birds
• Bat Lyssavirus 1, human exposure
• Raptors against rodents, Wallonia
• Aedes albopictus in Belgium (in French)
• Psittacosis in bird keepers (in Dutch)
• Human trichinellosis from imported wild boar meat
• Human trichinellosis outbreak in Limburg and Antwerp (in Dutch)
• No evidence of Coronavirus infection in bats in Belgium
• Lyme disease, Belgium
• Complete Genome Sequence of a Papillomavirus Isolated from the European Mole
• Edwardsiella tarda sepsis in a live-stranded sperm whale
• Experimental infection of carrion crows with 2 European WNV strains
• Evaluation of Culicoides populations in the Hautes Fagnes

 

World

• Bacillus anthracis strains from permafrost in the tundra zone, Russia
• Mass die-off of Saiga antilopes, Kazakhstan 2015
• Pasteurella multocida present in Saiga, Kazakhstan
• Interaction between climate change and infectious disease drove worldwide amphibian decline
• Mycobacterium bovis infection in African wild dogs, Kruger Park, South-Africa
• New cetacean hosts of Brucella spp in marine mammals of Brazil
• Cetacean morbillivirus: a land to sea journey and back ?
• Extinction risk of mountain vipers triggered by climate change
• Detection of Candidatus Bartonella mayotimonensis in North-American bats
• Powassan virus: an emerging arbovirus of public health concern, North-America
• Water sports could contribute to the translocation of ranaviruses

• Five wildlife conservationists held by Iran could face the death penalty

• Blood clotting assays to assess anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in birds of prey
• Novel herpesviruses in cetaceans, South-America
• Coral reef kills: tissue loss disease, Carraibean (St-Maarten)
• Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in wildlife species beyond subfamily Caprinae
• Glyphosate perturbs the gut microflora of honey bees
• Southeast Asian birds hammered by a combination of habitat loss and capture
• Lungworms in badgers: taxonomy of Perostrongylus
• Robot lawnmowers are killing hedgehogs
• Ebola virus maintenance: if not (only) bats, what else ?
• Serologic survey of viral pathogens in Eurasian brown bears, Slovakia
• Dogs trained for wildlife disease surveillance
• Hantavirus in neotropical bats, Brazil
• Fecal transplants could help preserve vulnerable species
• P.destructans (WNS) extremely sensitive to UV light
• Use of human vaccine Mycobacterium bovis Calmette Guérin in deer
• Sea turtle mortality and plastic debris ingestion
• Trueperella pyogenes virulence factors in translocated deer (intracranial abcess disease)
• Animal disease situation, global, OIE, 2017-2018
• Foot and Mouth Disease in gazelles, Israel
• Resurgence of WNV human cases, Canada
• Sex ratios skewed by mercury pollution in snapping turtles
• Almost 1500 bird species face extinction: we're to blame
• Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines
• Seismic surveys raise concern over health of marine life
• Metabolic disorders induced by endocrine disruptors: new lead in understanding amphibian decline
• American frogs defend against fungal disease
• Conserving habitats, ecosystems everywhere key to saving wildlife
• Effects of chemically dispersed oil on feather structure and waterproofing of common murres
• Light pollution and bird migration
• Borrelia miyamotoi causing human disease, US
• First human case of AI H7N4
• First case of LPD in a wild turkey, Canada
• Diclofenac residues in Indian vultures: a post-ban scenario
• Ctenocephalides sp. spreading at the domestic animal - wildlife interface
• Sea star wasting disease
• Epidemiology of Chlamydia in koalas
• UV light might fight WNS
• Virus causing flu-like disease in bobtail lizards
• Trypanosoma sp diversity in Amazonian bats
• Update: Pest, Madagascar
• Novel coronavirus in shrews, China
• Adaptations of myxoma virus, Australia
• Severe Perkinsea infections (SPI) in amphibians, USA
• Immunological control of viral infections in bats and emergence of viruses highly pathogenic to humans
• Low antibody prevalence against Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis in monkeys, Ivory coast
• North American Brucella isolates from marine mammals
• Neonocotinoid pesticides threaten biodiversity
• Revisiting brucellosis in the greater Yellowstone area
• Record year for WNV in wildlife in Québec, Canada
• Climate change impact on reproduction in African wild dogs
• Invasive plants enhance vector capacity of malaria mosquitos
• Novel avuloviruses in penguins, Antarctica
• Bird collisions at glass bus shelters
• Bats and coronaviruses
• Snake fungal disease : update
• Influenza, canine : USA
• Seal finger (M. phocacerebrale), USA
• Pesticides increase transmission of schistosomiasis
• Highlights from the OIE working group on wildlife, 2016
• PPRV in wild ruminants, Iran
• Devil facial tumor disease: regression following immunetherapy
• Alarming links between feral pigs and vampire bats
• Yellow Fever kills 600 monkeys in Brazil's atlantic rain forest
• Update Peste des Petits Ruminants,  antelopes, Mongolia
• Saiga deaths in Mongolia: Peste des Petits Ruminants
• The smell of marine plastic may attract seabirds
• Rare bird AI strain H7N2 infects 45 stray cats, USA
• Veterinarian catches avian flu from shelter cats, USA
• Vanishing of Amercain pika: link to climate change
• Wild cardinals may protect humans from WNV
• Rabies vaccine effective even after warm storage
• Human infections by non-rodent asociated Hantaviruses, Africa
• Bacillus cereus in anthrax-like infection, Africa
• Frogs recover  from B.dendrobatidis, USA
• Bacterium against WNS
• First case of B.microti caused human babesiosis
• Influenza: WHO global update 1 Nov 2016
• Anthrax in reindeer and man affter permafrost thawing , Russia
• Climate change and zoonotic infections in the Russian arctic
• Newly detected virus in often-fatal beak deformities in wild birds
• Purple bacteria killing B.dendrobatidis could help save amphibians (USA)
• Largemouth Bass Virus: novel fish reovirus, USA
• Mycoplasma in North-American wild birds
• Factors affecting survival of oiled Common Mures in rehabilitation
• Fatal Canine Distemper Virus in Giant Pandas, China
• Mycobacterium mungi in mongoose: new way of TB transmission
• Co-infection of ticks: the rule rather than the exception
• White nose syndrome in bats: new counties (USA)
• Bluetongue in deer, USA
• Why bats don't get sick of the deadly diseases they carry
• Marine wildlife die-off: global warming
• New Borellia species causing Lyme borelliosis
• Snails carrying lungworm, Australia
• Vultures nearing extinction in Afrika
• Cutaneous leishmaniosis, Israel: wildlife reservoir
• Toxic algae threaten bald eagles, US
• Perkinsea-like infection in amphibians, worldwide
• Chinese horseshoe bats as the source of human SARS
• El Niño, Climate and prediction of Rift Valley Fever, East-Africa
• bullfrogs resist exp. infection with B.dendrobatitis: role environmental co-factors ?
• Beak and Feather Disease in endangered orange-bellied parrot, Australia
• New zoonotic Sosuga paramyxovirus in African fruit bats, Uganda
• Avian Bornaviruses in North American Gulls
• African swine fever, wild boar, UkraIne
• Zika (flavi)virus, Brasil
• Gammacoronaviruses in wild birds, Madagascar
• American foulbrood: new toxin identified
• Foot and Mouth Disease: a look from the wild side
•   Amphibians acquire resistance to live and dead fungus, overcoming fungal immunosuppression
• Declines in insectivorous birds are associated with high neonicotinoid concentrations
• Snake fungal disease; emerging (USA)
• Adverse outcome and risks of anticoagulant rodenticiedes to  predators

 

Benelux

• Deer presence rather than abundance determines the population density of Ixodes ricinus in Dutch forests

• Pathogen communities of songbird-derived ticks in Europe’s low countries

• Role of mustelids in the life-cycle of ixodid ticks and transmission cycles of four tick-borne pathogens

• More than 80% decline in butterflies in the Netherlands in a decade

• Asian tiger mosquito spotted in The Netherlands
• Brucella pinnipedialis in seals in The Netherlands
• AI H5N6 in The Netherlands, 2017-2018
• Lyme disease's worst enemy: foxes ? (1)
• Effects of predator activity on tick-borne disease risk (2)
• Severe pneumonia caused by Chlamydia caviae
• HP avian influenza in Greylag goose, The Netherlands
• Dead wolf found in the NL came from Germany
• Asphyxiation in long-finned pilot whales, caused by common soles
• Puumala Hantavirus modeling (NL)
• H5N8 found in wigeons: link with HP AI outbreaks in poultry
• Brucella spp. in stranded harbour porpoises on the Dutch coast

 

Europe

• Local rabies transmission and regional spatial coupling in European foxes

• CDV may affect European wild cat populations in central Spain
• Antocoagulant rodenticides in faeces of red fox, Norway
• Zoonotic cycles of cestode infections in area surrounding the Strasbourg primatology centre

• Carnivore parvoviruses in Eurasian otters, Italy

• Canine distemper virus, an emerging multihost pathogen in wild carnivores, Italy

• Conjunctivitis associated with Chlamydia felis Infection in Eurasian Lynx

• The helminth parasite community of European badgers in Ireland

• Serologic survey of viral pathogens in free-ranging Eurasian Brown Bears, Slovakia

• The EU trade ban on wild birds reduced invasion risks

• Detection of GI.2/RHDV2/b virus in the Mediterranean Pine Vole and White-Toothed Shrew

• Genetic-spatial characterization of red fox population related to rabies and canine distemper dynamics ?

• Haplosporidium pinnae causing collapse of the protected fan mussel in the Aegean Sea

• More than 400 dolphins stranded on the French coasts since beginning 2019 (article in French)

• First detection of CWD in red deer in Europe
• First CWD case in moose in Sweden
• WNV update Europe, ECDC, nov 2018

• Trichomonosis in greenfinches and goldfinches wintering in Northern France

• Tularemia in rabbit hunters, Germany

• Helminth infections of wild European gray wolves

• White-tailed sea eagles with avian influenza, Germany
• Mammalian orthoreovirus type 3 also in alpine chamois
• Dolphin Morbillivirus in otters, Italy
• Sarcocystis calchasi in Accipiter hawks and wood pigeon, Germany
• Fatal Streptoccocus canis necrotizing fasciitis/myositis in an Iberian lynx
• Pantropic Canine Coronavirus in a Wolf, Italy
• Conjunctivitis and Chlamydia felis in Eurasian Lynx
• 33 years of lead shot regulation in Denmark
• Crayfish plague, Ireland
• An outbreak of RHD in Finland
• EFSA update of ASF in Europe 30nov 2018
• Recent changes in infectious disease in European wildlife
• Herpesvirus in stranded cetaceans, molecular survey, Portugal
• GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership quarterly report, 2018
• Pathologic findings and causes of death in stranded cetaceans, Canary Islands
• Dental anomalies/lesions in Eastern Atlantic harbour seals, Germany
• Sarcocystis fulicae n.sp. in Eurasian coot
• Outbreak RHD, Finland
• Thelazia callipaeda endemic in red foxes, Romania
• Avian poxvirus and papillomavirus in Gyps fulvus, Italy
• Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, Encephalitozoon cuniculi in red foxes, Czech Republic
• Recent changes in infectious disease in European wildlife
• WNV detected in a thrush, Germany
• Asian tiger mosquito in Spain
• Bufonic herpesvirus in common toads, Switzerland
• C.psittaci pneumonia: exposure to fulmars, Faroe Islands
• Pulmonary adiospiromycosis in beavers, Poland
• Squirrel adenovirus 1 in Scotland
• Trombiculosis in chamois, Italy
• USUV in Culex pipiens, France
• Rickettsia helvetica in Ixodes ricinus, Rome, Italy
• Unsustainable European fishing practices harm seabirds
• Hypertrophic osteopathia + mycotic pneumonia in roe deer, France
• Alkhurma virus in Mediterranean basin ticks
• Iceland resumes whaling
• Fatal human case of leptospirosis, France
• Fatal leptospirosis in Eurasian beavers in Switzerland
• Tularemia in a jogger woman after attack of a common buzzard
• Neuroapthologic findings in cetaceans stranded in Italy
• Schmallenberg virus in European Bison, Poland
• Serologic survey of pathogens in wild boar, Sweden
• Experimental alphavirus infection in nestlings of house sparrows, UK
• Vaccination of wild boar piglets against TB, Spain
• Tick-borne Midichloria mitochondrii in roe deer, France
• Leishmania in wolves, a spreading zoonosis, northern Spain
• France's bird population crash due to pesticicides
• Leptospira sp. and Hantavirus in small rodents in urban environment, Hungary
• Leptospira sp genomospecies and sequence type prevalence in small mammals, Germany
• Germany allows culling wild boar year-round to stop AFS
• New multiplex serochip to detect tick-borne dieases
• Serologic survey of pathogens in wild boar, Sweden
• GI parasitic infections in moose, Sweden
• ASF wild boar, Czech Republic
• ASF wild boar, Poland
• EFSA Avian Influenza overview sept-nov 2017
• Mustelid gammaherpesvirus 1 (STD) in European Badger
• Trichomoniasis causing population declines in greenfinches, UK
• Self-clearing of pestivirus infection in Pyrenean chamois
• Epidemiology of Schmallenberg virus in European Bison in Poland
• Beta CoV viruses related to MERS in bats, Italy
• Trichinella spp. biomas increase in raccoon dogs and red foxes, Estonia
• Yew (Taxus) intoxication in free-ranging cervids
• Bokeloh Bat Lyssavirus in Europe
• Snake fungal disease confirmed in Europe
• Amphibian recovery after a decrease in acidic precipitation
• Serology EBLV1 in serotine bats and their survival, France
• Usutu virus in humans, Austria 2016
• Illegal killings of wildlife, Fennoscandia
• Fishing and bird bycatch, Europe
• Avispora mochogalegoi n.sp. in the little owl, Portugal
• HP AI H5N8 in a buzzard, Cyprus
• TBE increase in France
• EU adds 12 species to the list of IAS
• WNV magpie mortality, Greece
• HP AI H5N8 in wild mute swans, Switzerland
• WNS in a 1918 bat specimen, France
• Mixed infections with genetic variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in roe deer
• Angiostrongylus vasorum in wolves, Italy
• Distribution of A.phagocytophilum in a  fragmented agricultural landscape
• Road crossing behaviour in roe deer
• Campylobacter spp. isolates from free-living birds, Poland
• Outcomes of wildlife rehabilitation, Spain
• Brucella pinnipedialis in Grey Seals, Baltic Sea
• ASF in wild boar, Czech Republic
• CCHF: two first cases in Spain
• Intravascular pathogens in red fox: Babesia vulpes, Mycoplasma spp.
• AI + circovirus infection in gulls with severe disease
• Ljungan virus in bank voles in Fennoscandia
• Canine parvovirus in wild carnivores , Portugal
• Bornavirus from shrews, new endemic area, Austria
• Mycoplasma sturni in corvids, Germany
• AI surveillance in wild birds in Poland
• Gyrodactylus salaris in salmons, Sweden
• Increase Hantavirus cases, Germany
• Crayfish plague, Ireland
• Marteiliosis in mussels, Norhtern Ireland
• Wildlife Disease Surveillance, Sweden 2016: annual report
• Abundance of badgers in England and Wales
• Update badger culls in UK
• Exposure of threatened Accipitridae to Mycobacterium bovis, call for active surveillance
• Giardia in red foxes, Sweden
• Alarming dolphin strandings in Golfe de Gascogne (in French)
• Lynx carrying FIV, Switzerland
• Infectious keratoconjunctivitis in wild caprinae
• Pseudorabies in European Lynx, Spain
• EU list of invasive alien species
• Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe
• Rickettsial pathogens in otters, Italy
• Dolphin Morbillivirus associated mass strandings in Sperm Whales, Italy
• Rat Bite Fever causing quadriplegia in snake keeper, France
• Home ranges of raccoon dogs
• Vulture conservation and Mycobacterium bovis
• Aujeszky's disease in wild boar (D)
• IKC in wild Caprinae, epidemiology
• Mycoplasma sturni in corvids, Germany
• Detection of E.granulosus G3 in wild boar, Italy
• Extension of avian host range of collyriclosis in Europe
• RHD in mountain hare, Sweden,
• Aujesky's disease in wild boar, Germany
• Avipoxvirus in house sparrows, Spain
• Edema disease in wild boar, Pyrenées Orientales, France
• Dolphin morbillivirus and mass strandings of sperm whales, Italy
• HP AI H5N8 in Europe
• Leprosy, red squirrel, UK
• Culling of protected Ibex, against scientific advice (F)
• High pesticide levels in oilseed rape crops harm wild bees,
• Distemper in badgers and foxes, Italy
• Usutu virus, The Netherlands
• Badger cull areas more than triple, UK
• Evaluation of E.multilocularis surveillance in France
• Lightning kills 300 reindeer, Norway
• Tularemia in grape harvesters, Germany
• WNV in mosquitos, Germany
• Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Spain
• Simulation of sampling options for CSF in wild boar in Italy
• Papillomavirus in finches, Italy
• Detection of CWD in moose (Norway)
• First detection of CWD in Europe in reindeer (Norway)
• Squirrel leprosy, Scotland (UK)
• Autochtonous Dengue outbreak, Nimes (Southern France)
• Monitoring of wolf abundance by camera traps, Croatia
• Ranavirus die-offs in alpine amphibias, France
• Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease, Finland
• Exp. challenge of European starlings with HP AI H7N9 from China
• Leaked EC plan would allow overfishing
• Liver fluke (F.magna) in fallow deer, Serbia
• Wind turbines causing chronic stress in badgers, UK
• Bats against the pine processionary
• RHD in Scotland (UK)
• WNV neuroinvasive disease in humans (Croatia)
• Survival of frog virus 3 in sediment and freshwater, UK
• Antibodies to Rickettsia spp and Borrelia burgdorferi in spanish red foxes
• Antibodies to Aleutian mink disease virus in European and American mink, Spain
• Succesful elimination of B. dendrobatidis in nature, Mallorca (E)
• Gyrodactylus salaris, wild salmon, Sweden
• Rabiës surveillance France: three positive serotines
• Hepatitis E virus in German deer
• Leptospira interrogans distribution (multispacer sequence typing) in Rattus norvegicus, France 2011-2013
• Fatal human leptospirosis, UK
• Schistosomiasis in Corsica (F)
• Usutu virus in wild birds in France
• Parasite fauna of the Gyrfalcon in Iceland
• Serosurvey of brucellosis in wild boar, Sardinia (Italy)
• Lyme disease and QFever in wild rodents, central Italy
• Streptococcus pyogenes in a hedgehog, UK
• Toxic algae, North Wales, UK
• African Swine fever spread, Eastern Europe
• Ulcerative dermal necrosis, salmons, UK
• Seroepidemiology (Morbillivirus, Toxoplasma, Brucella) Cetaceans, Italian coast
• First laboratorium confirmed  human WNV case, Portugal
• Molecular survey on brucellosis in rodents and shrews, Germany
• The rabbit as wildlife reservoir for BVD
• Tick-borne pathogens in Dermacentor spp., France
• Vaccination of foxes and raccoon dogs against rabiës (EFSA)
• New bornavirus discovered in variegated squirrels: potential link to human infections
• Coinfection of Mycobact. bovis, M.avium ssp  paratuberculosis and Corynebacterium. pseudotuberculosis  in red deer, Portugal
• Trichinellosis, sausages, Corsica
• Multiresistant Salmonella in asymptomatic wildlife, Spain
• Porcine parvovirus type3 and porcine circovirus type2 in wild boars, Slovakia
• Herpesvirus associated genital lesions in a stranded striped dolphin, Canary Islands
• Circovirus in foxes with meningoencephalitis, UK
• Diclofenac approval threatens European vultures and eagles
• European mustelids infected by Trichinella from domesticated swine
•   Squirrel leprosy in red squirrel, (Scotland), a new threat
• Oedema  disease in wild boars, Ardèche, France
• Wildlife Reservoir for Hepatitis E Virus, France
• Novel Astroviruses, Coronaviruses, and Caliciviruses in Hungarian bats
• Chlamydiaceae in North Atlantic see birds, France
• Iberian lynx : recovering from extinction but run down by cars..
• ASF, Latvia : spread from wild boar to pigs