BWDS

Europe

• Roe deer exposure to trace metals and pesticides, France

• France starts ASF surveillance at German border 

• ASF in Germany, wild boar

• Mercury contamination and potential health risk to French sea birds

• Vaccination by injection against TB in badgers, Dordogne, France

• Au-delà de Lyme : les autres maladies transmises par les tiques

• Tularemia from voles, Avila , Spain

• A human Salmonella typhimurium  outbreak linked to contact with birds and cats.

• Serological investigation for Brucella ceti in Cetaceans, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

• A large outbreak of avian botulism in wild waterbirds in Northeastern Italy (2019–2022

• Farm management practices and host species richness associated with higher likelihood of tuberculosis positive farms (Spain)

• Veterinary medicines toxic to raptors and scavengers

• Bats: Histopathology confirms White-Nose Syndrome in bats in Europe (2012)

• Use of lure sticks for non-invasive genetic sampling of European wildcat populations

• An extensive re-evaluation of evidence and analyses of the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) I: Within proactive culling areas

• An extensive re-evaluation of evidence and analyses of the RBCT II: In neighbouring areas

• Government to end badger cull with new TB eradication strategy

• Foodborne pathogenic bacteria in European hedgehogs

• Pathological findings in European Hedgehogs, Italy and Switzerland

• Microplastics contamination in Barn owl pellets, Italy

• Detection of zoonotic Rat Hepatitis E Virus in Pigs, Spain, 2023

• Ten years of Mediterranean monk seal stranding records, Greece

• Impact of chemical pollution on endangered migratory fish, France

• CCHF in ticks in Corsica, France

• Bats and viruses. Current research and future trends (2021)

• Squirrelpox virus spreads north of central Scotland

• Wind energy and bat conservation: call for application of measures to reduce fatalities

• Tracking data suggest that migratory seabirds transport per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to their arctic nesting site

• Serologic survey of selected viral pathogens in brown bears, Slovakia

• Escaped farmed salmon were infected with one or more viruses

• Performance of fur clips and livestock markers for identifying vaccinated badgers

• Body mass reduction in chamois linked to climate change

• Is Leishmania tropica circulating in wildlife in Spain ?

• Botulism in two juvenile red foxes in Somerset, England, UK

• A review of bovine tuberculosis transmission risk in European wildlife communities

• Chemical disinfection to control chytrid fungus at breeding points of endangered amphibians

• Levels of toxic PCB chemicals found at 30x "safe" limits in stranded whales

• African swine fever in wild boar, Emilia Romagna region, Italy,

• CCHF virus detected in ticks collected on cattle farms in the Pyrenees, France

• Autochtonous Dengue outbreak in Paris region

• A multi-taxon analysis of European Red Lists reveals major threats to biodiversity

• "Seal finger" caused by newly discovered Mycoplasma phocimorsus
  
• Fatal human Borna disease virus 1 encephalitis outside previously known area for human cases,
• Herpesvirus and hemosporidians in the endangered Pyrenean Capercaillie 

• Presence of coronaviruses in pipistrelle bats in relation to landscape composition

• Tick-borne Flaviviruses antagonise interferon

• Threat of organochlorines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on Monk seals, Greece

• Possible role of algal toxins and Klebsiella infections in 2007 mass mortality in Danish and Swedish marine mammals 

• Pseudorabies virus in wolves, detection and molecular analysis, Italy

• Trace element concentrations in organs of European hedgehog, effects of urbanisation

• Badger ecology, bovine tuberculosis, and population management, Ireland

• Asessing the dynamics of Mycobacterium bovis infection in French badgers

• Tick-borne encephalitis, Italy
• Report: badger culls are not the best way to cut bovine TB

• Tick-borne encephalitis progressing in France

• Bilharziose in Corsica

• Angiostrongylus cantonensis, an emerging zoonosis

• A virus transmitted to cattle by mosquito’s in Europe

• Persistence of radioactive contamination in Bavarian Wild Boars

• Zoonotic parasites in black rats, Italy

• Surveillance of arboviroses (Chikungunya, Dengue, Zika) in 2023, France (article in French)

• Foxes that died from infectious diseases were more exposed to anticoagulant rodenticides

• Epizootic Haemorrhagic Disease virus serotype 8, Italy, 2022

• Epizootic Haemorrhagic Disease, France (1) (press article, French)

• Epizootic Haemorrhagic Disease, France (2)

• HP Avian Influenza affects vultures’ movements and breeding output

• HP Avian Influenza (H5N1) in Northern Gannets: global spread, clinical signs, demographic consequences

• Applications of VirScan to broad serological profiling of bat reservoirs for emerging zoonoses

• Discovery and identification of a novel canine coronavirus causing a diarrhea outbreak in Vulpes

• Microplastics evidence in yolk and liver of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta).

• African swine fever in wild boar outside Fagersta, Sweden

• West Nile Virus, Greece

• Second death from West Nile virus in the region Extremadura, Spain

• West Nile virus and Usutu virus, Italy

• Alongshan-Virus (ALSV): ticks, wild and domestic animals

• Alongshan-Virus (ALSV): first evidence in Germany (article in German)

• Irises of gannets that survive avian flu turn from blue to black, study finds

• Sources of highly toxic veterinary pharmaceuticals and caffeine for avian scavengers

• Chemical cocktails harmful to wildlife found in 81% of English rivers and lakes

• Lyme disease: a possible innovative vaccination track to decrease the danger from ticks (ANSES: article in French)

• Microbiota perturbation by anti-microbiota vaccine reduces the colonization of Borrelia afzelii in Ixodes ricinus

• Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis’ in Europe

• Risk zones for introduction of 4 arboviroses into the EU by traffic of living animals (article in French)

• Dynamics of Mycobacterium bovis infection in three French badger populations

• Suid alphaherpesvirus 1 of wild boar origin as a recent source of Aujeszky’s disease in carnivores in Germany >> Canidae as sentinels for Aujeszky's disease in wild boar

• Coronaviruses in Italian wildlife

• Vector competence of mosquitoes from northeastern France to West Nile virus and Usutu virus

• CCHF: present in southern France soon ? (article in French)

• Bacterial Agents Detected in 418 Ticks Removed from Humans during 2014–2021, France

• Two First Brucella suis Biovar 2 Infections Cases in French Dogs

• ESBL- and AmpC-producing E. coli in griffon vultures, France

• Corynebacterium ulcerans infections in Eurasian Beavers

• Helminths in Invasive Raccoons (Procyon lotor) from Southwest Germany

• Ranid Herpesvirus 3 Infection in common frog Rana temporaria Tadpole

• Contact between European bison and cattle and the risk of pathogen transmission

• Leishmaniasis in Iberian Wolves in Northwestern Spain

• Mediterranean Spotted Fever

• Wolf impact on cervids and wild boar populations, Drôme, France (in French)

• Sixteen people affected by trichinellosis, Spain

• Impact of wildlife and environmental factors on hantavirus infection in the host: translation into human risk

• Large-scale effects of offshore wind farms on seabirds of high conservation concern

• Chewing Lice (Lutridia exilis) in growing Eurasian otter populations, Northern Germany

• Negative impact of heat waves (climate change) on bats

• Ten Years of Tuberculosis Monitoring in Free-Living European Bison, Poland

• The ongoing disease threat grey squirrels pose to sympatric red squirrel populations, UK 

• Fears for England’s frog and toad population after drought

• Tick-borne encephalitis, UK

• The wolf as a sensitive sentinel for the Trichinella cycle,  Western Alps

• First molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in cockroaches

• Avian Influenza in non-avian wildlife, UK (8 February 2023)

• Health status of invasive raccoons in metropolitan France, viruses infecting carnivores

• Pelodera strongyloides in the critically endangered Apennine brown bear

• Surveillance of 16 native bat species uncovers coronaviruses with zoonotic potential, UK

• Incidence of tuberculosis in red deer, Exmoor, UK

• Squirrel pox in red squirrels, Scotland

• Microsatellite data predict imminent extinction of the boreal lynx, France

• Novel prion strain as cause of Chronic Wasting Disease in a Moose, Finland

• Diurnal raptors at rescue centres in the Czech Republic   

• A project from ENET WILD

• EFSA: Avian Influenza overview, September-December 2022

• Fifty years of wildlife diseases in Europe: a citation database meta-analysis

• Short-finned pilot whale strandings associated with Morbillivirus, Brazil

• Photobacterium damselae pneumonia in stranded bottlenose dolphin, Eastern Mediterranean Sea

• Cardio-pulmonary parasites of the European wildcat, Germany

• Lloviu virus from Italian Schreibers’ bent-winged bats

• Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) mortality along the Italian coast (1624 – 2021)

• Wild ungulates as sentinels of TBEV circulation, northwestern Alps, Italy

• Endoparasites of the Iberian wolf and mesocarnivores, Portugal

• Marine Litter in Cetaceans stranded in the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean Sea)

• European Brown Hare Syndrome in Poland: current epidemiological Situation

• Recently discovered Gammaherpesvirus variant in European badgers

• Brucellosis in European terrestrial and marine wildlife, regional implications

• Habitat-use influences disease-mediated population declines in garden birds, UK

• Virus diversity, abundance, and evolution in three different bat Colonies Switzerland

• Neuropathologic and molecular aspects of a CDV epizootic in red foxes, Germany

• Genetic diversity and structure in polecat not affected by introduction of the American mink, Poland

• Dangerous levels of medical drugs polluting UK rivers: risks to wildlife

• Parvoviruses in red fox populations, Italian Dolomites

• West-Nile Virus in a snowy owl, Magdeburg Zoo, Germany

• Monitoring RHD Virus in European Wild Rabbits by PCR analysis of fecal pellets 

• Toxocara cati and Toxoplasma gondii in French birds of prey
• Predicting global killer whale population collapse from PCB pollution
  
• Badger vaccination against TB, UK
• Trichomonas in Austrian song birds
• ASF approaching: domestic pigs, France (in French)

• Emergence of methicillin resistance (in hedgehogs) predates the clinical use of antibiotics

• A novel coronavirus inn Swedish bank voles (Myodes glareolus)
• Survey for Batrachochytrium spp. in water frogs, Latvia 
• Toxocara cati and Toxoplasma gondii in birds of prey, France
• Monitoring RHDvirus in European wild rabbit populatons by PCR analysis of fecal pellets
• Modeling wildlife contribution to F4-familyMycobacterium bovis infection, southern France
• Hepatitis E virus in the endangered Iberian Lynx

• Dirofilaria immitis and microfilaria in Iberian wolves and red foxes, Portugal

• Blood parasites and health status of Noctule Bats (Nyctalus noctula)

• Wolf dispersal patterns in the Italian Alps, implications for wildlife diseases spreading

• Two people with monkey pox in London

• Pasteurellosis in deer, Spain

• ASF, Italy

• No Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks, Corsica, France

• Reintroductions of the Corsican red deer: conservation projects and sanitary risk

• Spatial variation of rodenticides and emerging contaminants in blood of raptor nestlings, Germany

• Invasive raccoon and raccoon dog as potential reservoirs of tick-borne pathogens

• ASF in wild boar, Poland/Russia

• First cases of acute hepatitis caused by new zoonotic virus HEV-C (orthohepevirus, rat hepatitis E), Spain

• The badger as a new host for Dirofilaria immitis, distribution of the heartworm in wild carnivores, Romania

• Isolation of infectious Lloviu virus from Schreiber’s bats, Hungary

• Use of poisoned baits against wildlife, a retrospective 17-year study, Extremadura (Spain)

• A first post mortem study of otters in Italy

• SARS-CoV-2 has not emerged in roe, red or fallow deer in Germany or Austria during the COVID 19 pandemic

• Admissions of wild raptors to rehabilitation centres, UK: causes, temporal trends, effects of urbanisation

• Neuropathological characterization of dolphin morbillivirus infection in Cetaceans stranded in Italy

• CDV in wild carnivores, 2012-2020, Czech Republic:

• Human cases of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Spain, 2021 (in French)

• Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a future health problem in France? (in French)

• Environmental conditions affecting mercury exposure in arctic seabirds: U-shaped curve over 20 years

• Clinical Tick-Borne Encephalitis in a Roe Deer, Italy

• Exposure to pharmaceuticals in waterbirds: the use of feathers for monitoring

• Wild crows trade cigarette butts for peanuts to keep Swedish streets clean

• Mustelids (stone marten, badger) seropositive for SARS CoV-2 in Bretagne, France (in French)

• First Case of Phocoena Pestivirus in a Belt Sea Harbour Porpoise

• Brown hare leverets at wildlife rescue centres in the Czech Republic

• Endoparasites in Capercaillies and Black Grouse kept in aviaries

• Lesions induced by Spirocerca vulpis in red foxes, Spain

• Anti–Leishmania infantum antibodies in European and American mink, northern Spain

• "Morbus Caroli" (cholangiofibroma) in European Brown Hare: to differentiate from hepatic alveolar echinococcosis and cysticercosis

• Setaria tundra (filaroid nematode) in a roe deer, Bavaria, Germany

• Pathological findings in otters found dead, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

• Gastrointestinal and pulmonary parasitofauna of Eurasian Lynx, Germany

• First Report of Uncinaria hamiltoni in Eastern Mediterranean Monk Seal pups (Greece)

• Avian influenza, update Europe November 2021, including wild birds

• African swine fever, Germany: spread in wild boar

• Overview brucellosis epidemic in alpine ibex, 2012-2020, massif du Bargy, France (in French)

• Exposure of predatory/scavenging birds to anticoagulant rodenticides, France

• Bottlenose dolphins aggressive behavior towards other cetacean species, western Mediterranean

• Epidemics in Fringillidae caused by a single variant of Salmonella typhimurium, Austria

• Morishitium polonicum causing severe respiratory disease in Eurasian blackbirds, Italy

• Anaplasma phagocytophilum in tissue samples of wild carnivores, Romania

• Red squirrel naturally infected with Francisella tularensis, Switzerland

• Frequent Leptospira spp. detection but absence of Tula Hantavirus in Microtus spp. voles, Spain

• Herpesvirus in cetaceans stranded in the Western Mediterranean: tissue tropism, lesions

• Juvenile hedgehogs release rate depending on weight on admission

• Leptospirosis in a wolf: first case in Europe

• Tuberculosis in badgers where the bovine tuberculosis epidemic is expanding in cattle, England

• Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Eurasian Lynx

• ASF further westward spread: Germany

• HP AI subtype H7N7 found in a mute swan in Metz, France (in French)

• New demodecid mite in lesser white-toothed shrew/ Redescription of Demodex talpae from European mole / Data on parasitism in Soricomorpha

• HP AI subtype H7N7 found in a mute swan in Metz, France (in French)

• How to start up a national wildlife health surveillance programme

• Targeted strategies for management of wildlife diseases: brucellosis in Alpine ibex

• Trichomonas infections in two Accipiter species from Germany

• First description sarcoptic mange in European wildcat, Spain

• Detection and characterisation of DNA viruses in Italian Wolves

• Babesia pisicii n.sp. and Babesia canis in wild cats, Romania

• Mycobacterium microti Infections in Free-Ranging Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)

• Botulism and Bisgaard taxon implicated in arctic tern deaths, UK

• First detection of herpesvirus and prevalence of Mycoplasma infection in Hermann’s tortoises and in potential pet vectors, France

• Help from the sky: can vultures contribute to cystic echinococcosis control in endemic areas?

• Avian influenza H5N1, wid birds: Germany, Estonia (OIE)
• Surveillance of Lyssavirus infections in bats in metropolitan France, 2020 (in French)

• Suspected puffinosis in Manx shearwaters, 2017-18, France

• WNV infections in Europe on 15 October 2020 (in French)

• Consequences of acute exposure to glyphosate in trout

• Organochlorine pesticide and PCB residues in common swifts, Germany

• Endoparasites of European wildcats in Greece

• Louping-ill serosurvey of willow ptarmigan, Norway

• Footrot in alpine ibex, Switzerland

• Herpesviruses in passerine birds (autumn migration), Slovenia

• Diclofenac killing Cinereous Vulture

• Avian influenza (47): Europe, wild bird, HPAI H5, H5N5, OIE

• Peritoneal and pleural metacestodosis by Mesocestoides vogae in European wild cat

• Novel SARS-CoV-2 variant derived from clade 19B, France

• Diagnosis of tuberculosis in wildlife: a systematic review

• Tula Virus causing Hantavirus disease in immunocompetent person, Germany

• Parasites of the reintroduced Iberian Lynx and sympatric mesocarnivores, Extremadura, Spain

• Gulls at Ile de Ré (France) contaminated with endocrine disrupting substances (in French)

• Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) health surveillance in Britain: assessing a disjunctive reintroduced population

• The seal louse (Echinophthirius horridus) in the Dutch Wadden Sea: investigation of vector-borne pathogens

• A deceased patient diagnosed with bat rabies, France (in French)

• Conservation strategy for earth’s most endangered pinniped, the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus

• Specific capture and whole-genome phylogeography of Dolphin morbillivirus

• Commission launches knowledge centre to reverse biodiversity loss and protect Europe’s ecosystems

• Italy, European champion of poaching (in French)

• Genome sequence of a ranavirus isolated from a Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), Poland

• Over 300 seals found dead at Caspian See shore, Daguestan (in French)
• ASF spread in Germany, wild boar
• Generalised tuberculosis by Mycobacterium caprae in red fox, Austria
• Vector-borne pathogens in red foxes, southern France
• Dirofilaria immitis in wolves, Italy
• Wild ungulate overabundance in Europe
• Brucella ceti in striped dolphins, Italy
• Harbour porpoises potentially subjected to grey seal predation
• Measures implemented to combat ASF in Germany
• Human-bat interactions and risk of Lyssavirus transmission, metropolitan France
• CWD in reindeer, Norway
• African Swine Fever in wild boar, Germany (1)
• African Swine Fever in wild boar, Germany (2)

• Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) identified in a wild reindeer at Hardanger Plateau

• First detection of Leishmania infantum in urban common bats P.pipistrellus, Spain
• Isolation of Leptospira interrogans from a bottlenose dolphin, Mediterranean Sea
• Trematodes in mallards, Poland, Czech Republic
• Chlamydiaceae and tetracycline resistant genes in wild boar, central Europe
• Cutaneous fibropapilloma in a red deer associated to C.elaphus papillomavirus, Portugal
• Red foxes as sentinels for rodent-borne Hantavirus and LCM virus, Spain
• Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Turkey, Spain
• Distribution of parasitic helminths in small intestine of red fox
• Pine marten recovery reverses squirrel species replacement, UK
• Badger vaccination in England
• Antibiotic resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae in seals indicates anthropogenic pollution
• Canine parvovirus and pseudorabies coinfection causing death in a wolf, Italy
• Vector-borne pathogens in red foxes, southern France
• Generalised TB due to Mycobacterium caprae in a red fox, Austria
• Suttonella ornithocola-associated mortality in tits in Germany (1)  
• Suttonella ornithocola-associated mortality in tits in Germany (2)  
• TBE in rodents, Poland
• Bait density monitoring and effectiveness of rabies vaccination in foxes, Montenegro
• Responsiveness of various reservoir species to oral rabies vaccination
• Mycobacterium bovis vaccines in badgers
• Red Foxes as sentinels of rodent-borne hantavirus and LCM virus, Spain
• ASF, Wild Boar + Domestic, Moldova
• ASF, Serbia, Wild Boar
• Trichinellosis, Wild Boar consumption, Italy
• Borna virus, human cases, Germany
• Cutaneous fibropapilloma in a red deer, ass. with C.elaphus papillomavirus, Portugal
• Trematodes in mallards: geographic/ecologic aspects of community structure, Poland & Czech Republic
• HP-AI H5N8, White-fronted Goose, Germany
• HP-AI H5N8, Goshawk, Poland
• Canine circovirus in red foxes, Italy
• Cholangiocarcinoma in a Brown Bear, Spain
• Shrews transmitting Borna virus disease in Europe
• Babesia venaturum in sheep, zoonotic, Scotland
• ASF, wild boar, Poland: spreading
• TBE, Denmark
• TBE, Switzerland
• TBE survey, UK
• TBE seroprevalence in voles (Microtus spp.), Poland
• Potential of Natura 2000 to achieve EU conservation goals
• WNV, ECDC update, Europe
• Usutu virus, human cases, Italy
• Hepatitis E Virus in Chamois and Red Deer, Italian Alps
• Climate change may enable Aedes aegypti infestation in major European cities by 2100
• First Detection of CWD in a wild Red Deer in Europe
• Carnivore Parvoviruses in Spanish wildlife
• WNV cases, Germany
• WNV update, ECDC, Europe
• 3^rd CWD case in moose, Sweden
• ASF in wild boar, 1^st occurrence in Hungary
• Tularemia, Eurosurveillance report, Sweden
• Neisseria animaloris in harbour porpoises following traumatic injuries by grey seals
• Modelling of EBLV pathways in a bat population
• Determinants of population trends in European amphibians and reptiles
• 95% of dead fulmars with ingested plastic (in French)
• Cholangiosarcoma in a brown bear (Spain)
• Canine circovirus in red foxes, a new real-time PCR assay, Italy
• Novel Salmonella variant in great spotted woodpeckers, UK
• Lungworms in the Striped Dolphin, Mediterranean
• Pyometra by Staphylococcus lentus in a hedgehog
• First Isolation of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, in bats from Italy
• Visual diagnosis of sarcoptic mange in free-ranging Iberian ibexes ?
• Serological survey of migratory caribou herds
• High pollutant exposure level of the largest European community of bottlenose dolphins in the English Channel
• DEFRA to review game bird releases, UK
• Badger culls in England extended
• Dirofilaria immitis: a new potential pathogen for the endangered Iberian Lynx
• H3N8 influenza A virus with multiple mammalian-adaptive mutations in a Grey seal pup
• Gastrointestinal helminths of wolves in Piedmont, north-western Italy
• Anticoagulant rodenticiedes in feces of wild foxes, Norway
• CDV, an emerging multihost pathogen in wild carnivores, Italy
• Canine adenovirus type 1 in red foxes in 3 European countries
• Local rabies transmission and regional spatial coupling in European foxes
• CDV may affect European wild cat populations in central Spain
• Anticoagulant 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