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• Bats may hold the secret to cancer resistance

• Bats identified as key players in cross-species spread of morbilliviruses

• Coastal Alaska wolves exposed to high mercury concentrations from eating sea otters

• NewZealand marine sponges ‘melted’ in temperatures not expected until 2100

• Diagnostic strategies and strain typing for  Johne's disease in wood bison, Canada

• Explorers of Ukrainian caves may have brought deadly bat fungus to U.S

• Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats

• Where is the elusive primary Ebolavirus reservoir and how do we find it ?

• New treatment for Lyme disease

• The peptidoglycan of Borrelia burgdorferi can persist in discrete tissues and cause systemic responses consistent with chronic illness
• .Elevated extinction risk in over one-fifth of native North American pollinators

• Using iDNA to determine impacts of Amazonian deforestation on Leishmania hosts, vectors, and their interactions

• Tick feeding or vaccination with tick antigens elicits immunity to the Ixodes scapularis exoproteome in guinea pigs and humans

• An animal source of mpox emerges - and it’s a squirrel

• Anthrax kills 50 hippos in Africa's oldest nature reserve

• Evaluation and treatment of lead toxicosis in rehabilitated avian species, USA

• Snaring and wildlife wastage in Africa: drivers, scale, impacts, and paths to sustainability 

• More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

• Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s

• What sparked the COVID pandemic? Mounting evidence points to raccoon dogs

• Natural fatal infection of Tembusu virus in bottlenose dolphins, Thailand

• Origins and evolutionary trajectories of morbilliviruses in Neotropical bats

• Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a novel threat to an urban population of Florida burrowing owls, USA 

• Aleutian mink disease virus introduced with American mink among native mustelids, Poland

• Fibropapillomatosis Dynamics, Severity and Demographic Effect in Caribbean Green Turtles

• Orally administered live BCG and heat-inactivated Mycobacterium bovis protect bison against experimental bovine tuberculosis

• Seroprevalence of HP avian influenza A(H5) virus infections among bovine veterinary practitioners, USA

• First record of microplastic contamination in adult endemic amazonian anuran species

• Lassa fever death toll hits 53, NCDC traces 191 suspected patients, Nigeria

• Emerging: covert mortality nodavirus (CMNV) in crustaceans (shrimps), fish and sea cucumbers (China, Thailand)

• Catastrophic and persistent loss of common murres after a marine heatwave, Alaska

• A wide diversity of viruses detected in African mammals in the wild meat supply chain

• Ship collision risk threatens whales across the world’s oceans

• Ratting on wildlife crime: training African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife

• Global influenza threatens conservation

• PFAS Exposure is Associated with a Lower Spermatic Quality in an Arctic Seabird

• PM findings of free-ranging North American beavers: potential threats to California freshwater ecosystems

• Discovery of the first sea turtle adenovirus and turtle associated circoviruses

• WOAH & IUCN (2024). General guidelines for surveillance of diseases, pathogens and toxic agents in free-ranging wildlife: An overview for wildlife authorities and others working with wildlife.

• Artificial whale poo to fertilize the oceans and sequester carbon, Australia

  
  

   

  • International tourists as a biosecurity pathway into national parks

  • India is suffering its largest Chandipura virus outbreak in 20 years

  • Chandipura (rhabdo)virus encephalitis, transmitted by phlebotomes, India

  • The economic impacts of ecosystem disruptions: Costs from substituting biological pest control

  • First report zoonotic pox virus IsrRAPXV from bats, Israel

  • Tularemia associated with harbor seal necropsy, Washington, USA

  • First outbreak of rabies in seals and vaccination trials, South-Africa
  • Bubonic plague from marmots, Mongolia
  • Density matters: how population dynamics of house mice (Mus musculus) inform the epidemiology of Leptospira

  • COVID-19 Virus Is Widespread in U.S. Wildlife

  • Avian ‘Bird’ Flu – undue media panic or genuine concern for pandemic potential requiring global preparedness action

  • 4th human case of H5N1 avian flu as more dairy herds in Colorado hit (USA)

• • Cocaine Shark”: First report on cocaine and benzoylecgonine detection in sharks

  • A novel Aeromonas hydrophila strain from naturally diseased frogs, Rana dybowskii

  • Circoviruses in  Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) with myocarditis lesions, Australia

  • Rabies in seals, South-Africa

  • Avian influenza in the house mouse (USA) !

  • CWD now also in California

  • HP Avian influenza in cattle in US  started earlier than thought

  • HP avian influenza detections in cattle, US

  • New virus found lurking in the genome of deadly chytrid fungus

  • Salmon poisoning disease in grizzly bears with population recovery implications

  • Disease-associated near-extinction event: Serpentovirus (Nidovirus) in critically endangered Australian freshwater turtles

  • Hunters afflicted with sporadic CJD: is Chronic Wasting Disease to blame?

  • Lymphomas in seabirds: case reports in a Black skimmer and a Brown booby

  • Alpha-gal syndrome

  • HPAI in cattle(!), USA

  • HPAI in cattle, literature review

  • Gray whale post-mortem findings during unusual mortality event in the Eastern North Pacific

  • Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (1): emerging novel phlebovirus and control

  • Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (2): epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and treatment

  • A novel hantavirus identified in bats (Carollia perspicillata) in Brazil

  • Contagious cancer in mussels

  • Swarming behaviour of bats and their tolerance to viral infections

  • Skin lesions caused by ophidiomycosis in a population of wild snakes

  • Bushmeat: sanitary risks and impacts of COVID 19 (article in French)

  • Novel herpesvirus in the critically endangered Galapagos pink land iguana

  • Mechanism of action of phthalazinone derivatives against rabies virus

  • Piscichuvirus-associated severe meningoencephalomyelitis in aquatic turtles, USA

  • Antemortem detection of Mycobacterium bovis in nasal swabs from African rhinoceros

  • Consumption of rodenticide baits by invertebrates as a potential route into the diet of Insectivores

  • Columbia begins sterilizing its invasive hippos

  • Sex-biased transmission of Mycoplasma gallisepticum in songbirds

  • Role of Culex territans mosquitoes in the transmission of B.dendrobatidis to amphibian hosts

  • The risk of wild birds contaminating source water with zoonotic Cryptosporidium and Giardia is probably overestimated

  • Avian Influenza H5N1 in brown skua populations: first report from the Antarctic (South-Georgia)

  • Avian influenza, Sea Lion, Uruguay

  • Surveillance in caribou, Canada

  • Monensin poisoning in birds

  • Host traits shape virome composition and virus transmission in wild small mammals

  • Dirofilaria immitis identified in Galapagos Sea Lions

  • Integrating full and partial genome sequences to decipher the global spread of canine rabies virus

  • Detection and characterization of a novel bat filovirus (Dehong virus, DEHV) in fruit bats

  • Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by Ophidascaris robertsi (Ascarid)

  • Optimizing the delivery of self-disseminating vaccines in fluctuating wildlife populations

  • First Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in White Rhinoceros

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• • FAO: Scientific Task Force on Avian Infuenza and wild birds. Statement July 2023 

  • Japan reports world's 1st Oz virus Symptom case in human

  • Zoonotic infection with Oz virus, a novel Thogotovirus, Japan

  • Toxic metals in tissues of loggerhead turtles, Mediterranean Sea coast, Egypt

  • The mystery of Australia's paralysed parrots

  • Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system

  • Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer, USA

  • Deer spread COVID to humans multiple times

  • Challenging control of Mycobacterium bovis in livestock and wildlife, South Africa

  • White-Tailed Deer serum kills the Lyme Disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi

  • Koalas are dying from Chlamydia, a new vaccine effort is trying to save them

  • African rhinos share retroviruses not found in Asian rhinos or other related species

  • Carryover effects from environmental change in early life and the amphibian extinction crisis

  • Avian flu outbreak in the Gambia threatens birds on East Atlantic Flyway

  • Threatened Californian condors affected by avian influenza H5N1

  • Leptospirosis outbreak after heavy floodings, Peru

  • Murine typhus (Rickettsia sp.), USA

  • Circoviruses in bats

  • How expert are ‘experts’? Comparing expert predictions and empirical data on the use of farmland restoration sites by birds

  • Human disturbance increases coronavirus prevalence in bats

  • Incidence of lead ingestion in managed goose populations and the efficacy of imposed restrictions on the use of lead shot

  • Mycobacterium marinum infection in a child after iguana bite, USA

  • Imidacloprid exposure detectable in over one third of wild birds, Texas

  • Changes in tissue tropism of Mycoplasma gallisepticum following host jump

  • Continent-wide recent emergence of a B. dendrobatidis in African amphibians

  • Tracking elusive and shifting identities of the global fishing fleet

  • Bald eagle mortality and nest failure due to clade 2.3.4.4 highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus

  • Novel papillomaviruses in the critically endangered Malayan and Chinese pangolins

  • Arctic animals exposure to tularemia

  • Stony Coral Disease (unknown etiology) spread by ships, USA

  • Coral reef kill, Thailand (Chonburi - Yellow Band Disease)

  • Feline Leukemia Virus spills over from domestic cats to North American pumas

  • Do pharmaceuticals in the environment pose a risk to wildlife?

  • Wildlife disease monitoring: methods and perspectives

  • Bird flu ‘an urgent warning to move away from factory farming’

  • Widespread SARS-CoV-2 exposure in wildlife, USA

  • Sea lion leptospirosis outbreak along Oregon coast, USA

  • Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology

  • Human influenza A virus H1N1 in marine mammals in California, 2019

  • Gammaretroviruses, novel viruses and pathogenic bacteria in Australian bats with neurological signs, pneumonia and skin lesions

  • Are bats really pathogen reservoirs ?

  • First case of HP avian influenza H5N1 in a black bear, USA

  • Cetacean poxvirus in Peruvian common bottlenose dolphins 

  • Seabird declines and climate change

  • Risk assesment: new methodology predicts coronavirus and other infectious disease threats to wildlife

  • First detection of Bluetongue virus in deer in  New York state

  • Which animals catch COVID? This database has dozens of species and counting

  • Monkeypox update, August 24th 202
  • Bird flu has killed 700 black vultures, Georgia, USA
  • HPAI in fox kits, Canada

  • Langya Henipavirus (from shrews), China (1)

  • Langya Henipavirus (from shrews), China (2)

  • Huanan seafood wholesale market was the early epicentrum for COVID19 pandemic
  • The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV2

  • Budd-Chiari-like pathology in dolphins (etiology not confirmed)

  • Non-invasive kidney stone treatment in harbour seal
  • Susceptibility of beavers for Chronic Wasting Disease
  • Novel species of Erysipelothrix associated with mortalities in sea birds
  • The changing epidemiology of human monkey pox: a potential threat ?
  • Monkeypox, Africa: overview
  • Monkeypox: update

  • Monkeypox multi-country outbreak: update 25 May, ECDC

  • Epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis infection in rhinoceros, KNP, South Africa

  • Fibropapillomatosis in immature Green Turtles, Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles)

  • Rabies in wildlife and livestock in Mongolia, 2012–2018

  • Marine endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the critically endangered California Condor: implications for reintroduction

  • Koala retrovirus load and non-A subtypes are associated with secondary disease among wild northern koalas

  • Poxvirus infection in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus), USA

  • Fibropapillomatosis in green turtles in relation to environmental changes, USA

  • Powassan virus encephalitis, Connecticut, USA

  • Bacterial and fungal pathogens in granulomatous lesions of Chelonia mydas, Brazil

  • Unnatural barriers: how the boom in fences is harming wildlife

  • COVID is spreading in deer, what does this mean for the pandemic ? 

  • Increased infectious disease risk likely from climate change

  • H5N1 avian influenza in a raccoon dog, Japan

  • Pangolins confiscated in Vietnam host SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses

  • Ivory traffic: identifying the sources thanks to DNA of the elephants (in French)

  • Tuberculosis transmission from sea mammals to humans in ancient South America

  • A global review of the conservation threats and status of mustelids

  • Highly divergent white-tailed deer SARS-CoV-2 with potential deer-to-human transmission

  • Possible case of deer to human Covid infection identified in Canada

  • Wild animals prized as delicacies in China contain a bevy of threatening viruses

  • New studies support Wuhan market as pandemic’s origin point

  • Situation analysis on the roles and risks of wildlife in the emergence of human infectious diseases

  • Wildlife conservation status and disease trends: ten years of reports to the worldwide monitoring system for wild animal diseases, OIE 2020

  • Changes in acoustic activity of beaked whales and sperm whales recorded during a naval training exercise off eastern Canada

  • Global invasion risk of Apocephalus borealis, a honey bee parasitoid

  • Canadian wildlife health surveillance—patterns, challenges and opportunities

  • Skunk adenovirus 1 causing disease and death in skunks, Prince Edward Island, Canada

• First evidence of white-tailed deer infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Canada.
• Arctic fox survival following exposure to rabies virus
• Risk factors for gas embolism and predictors of mortality in loggerhead sea turtles
• Toxoplasmosis as death cause in a monk seal, Hawai (USA)
• Fatal COVID19 infection in snow leopards (zoo), USA
• Ecology, evolution and spill-over of coronaviruses from bats
• Birds and plastic pollution: recent advances
• Exploring the potential effect of COVID-19 on an endangered great ape
• Parvovirus in Manchurian chipmunks, Korea
• Agent Orange: Haft-century effects on the Vietnamese wildlife have been ignored
• Ischemic leg necrosis in northern gannets
• Fatal blowhole obstruction by eel in common bottlenose dolphins, Florida, USA
• Next-generation ultrasonic recorders facilitate effective bat activity and distribution monitoring by citizen scientists
• The validation of a non-invasive skin sampling device for detecting cetacean poxvirus
• FAO, IUCN and OIE warn of African swine fever impact on wildlife conservation
• First outbreak of RHVD2 in wild rabbits in Norway
• Second vulture-safe veterinary painkiller identified: tolfenamic acid
• Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis
• Climatic factors influencing anthrax outbreak 2016, Siberia (Russia)
• Coronavirus, delta variant, in Sino-Mongolian Beaver, Mongolia
• Effects of diesel, heavy metals and plastics pollution on penguins, Antarctica
• Minority of animals host majority of zoonotic viruses
• Novel cetacean morbillivirus in Fraser’s dolphin, Hawaii
• Lumpy Skin Disease in gaur, ThailandInexpensive monitoring of flying insect activity/abundance using wildlife cameras
• Fibropapillomatosis and chelonid alphaherpesvirus 5 in green turtles from West Africa
• Songbirds can taste sugar
• Bird-feeder cleaning lowers disease severity in rural but not in urban birds
• Hemorhagic septicemia, Saiga antelopes, Kazakstan: recovery
• Avian influenza, wild birds, H5N8, China (OIE)
• Reindeer anthrax in the russian arctic, 2016
• A novel mortality-associated Helicobacter species in gopher tortoises
• Prevalence of MERS coronavirus in dromedary camels, Tunisia
• Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful?
• Assessing the risks of SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife
• Otters test positive for SARS CoV2, USA
• SARS-CoV2 variants of interest can infect mice: host range extended
• IPBES workshop on biodiversity and pandemics, Workshop report
• New strain of horse-killing Hendra virus, Australia
• Algae caused AVM in bald eagles
• Seabird mass mortality and ingested pumice: the chick or the egg ?
• Anticoagulant rodenticide exposure and toxicosis in bald eagles and golden eagles, USA
• White-tailed deer susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, finds study
• Brucellosis in wildlife in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
• Wing tags severely impair movement in African Cape Vultures
• Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic
• Streptococcal infections in marine mammals
• ENGS in chimps associated wih newly discovered Sarcinia species
• World could lose coral reefs by end of century, UN environment report warns
• Feed ingredient reduces methane in ruminants
• Review of petroleum toxicity in marine reptiles
• Can whales and dolphins catch COVID-19 from wastewater?
• Multi‐species ELISA for the detection of antibodies against SARS‐CoV‐2 in animals
• Therapeutically administered ribonucleoside analogue MK-4482/EIDD-2801 blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets
• Endangered primates face high risk of catching COVID19
• OIE guidelines for working with wildlife during cOVID19 pandemic
• Flying fox haemolytic fever, a new zoonosis caused by “Candidatus Mycoplasma haemohominis”
• Leprosy, ancient scourge of humans, found to assail wild chimpanzees
• A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils
• Over 90 endangered fish and invertebrates caught in industrial fisheries
• High body temperature is an unlikely cause of high viral tolerance in bats
• Possible ecological catastrophe in Russia’s Far East Kamchatka
• Tularemia in hare, first report Ukraïne
• Bubonic plague, oubreak among rodents, China
• Bubonic plague, marmot exposure, Mongolia
• Hedgehogs: Salmonella typhimurium, USA
• Undiagnosed elephant mortality: hemorrhagic septicemia suspected, Zimbabwe
• Elephant mortality due to toxic algae, Botswana
• Mystery deaths of elephants in Botswana
• Genetic identification of threatened shark species in pet food and beauty care products
• IUCN SSC WHSG guidelines for wildlife researchers in the time of COVID 19
• Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035
• New Mexico Mystery: Why Are So Many Birds Dropping Dead?
• OIE summary documents concerning SARS CoV2 in animals 
• Coronavirus transmission risk increases along wildlife supply chains
• Analysis of virus diversity in urban wild birds with paretic disease
• A novel Yersinia enterocolitica strain from Bats in asociation with a bat die-off, Georgia (Caucasus)
• Rift Valley Fever virus infected cells produce amyloid fibrils resembling prions
• Bourbon virus, USA
• Climate change increases infectious disease outbreaks with mass mortality in marine mammals
• Occurrence of Mycoplasma gallisepticum, wild birds
• Coronavirus papers (NCBI/NLM >Pubmed)
• BioOne peer-reviewed research regarding the corona crisis
• Elseviers coronavirus information center
• A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
• A cryptic species of Trichinella in wolverine
• Dogs detect larger wind energy effects on birds and bats
• Beaked whale strandings and naval sonar, Mariana Island
• Kyasanur Forest Disease, India
• Mycoplasma gallisepticum, songbirds, Canada
• Three pangolin species closer to extinction : IUCN
• ‘Hot blob’ in Pacific Ocean killed nearly a million seabirds
• Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates
• Cocirculation of two orthohantavirus species in small mammals, Ukraine
• A new phylogenetic framework for the animal-adapted Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
• Ebola Virus Disease, DRC, WHO External Situation Report december 2019
• Prions that cause chronic wasting disease able to evolve
• Tick-borne disease SFTS spreads throughout Asia
• Animal Exposure and Human Plague, United States, 1970–2017
• Extreme bradycardia and tachycardia in the world's largest animal
• Piscine reovirus: wild salmon exposure, Canada
• Lassa Fever, Liberia
• Novel test for wild felid-domestic cat hybridization
• Thelazia gulosa eye worm, emergence in humans, USA
• Classical swine fever, wild boar, Japan
• Deforestation leading to more infectious diseases in humans
• Targeted resequencing of wetland sediment for AI virus surveillance
• Egyptian fruit bats do not support productive Nipah virus replication
• Climate change allows spread of canine distemper (1)
• Viral emergence in marine mammals may be linked to Arctic sea ice reduction (2)
• Caryospora-like coccidia infecting Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas)
• Up to a third of US eagles may be infected with a hepatitis like virus
• Bat consumption, zoonotic risk, DRC
• A novel orthoreovirus in epizootic necrotizing enteritis and splenic necrosis in American crows
• Chlamydial disease progression in two thirds of infected wild koalas, Australia
• Illegal bird killing on a massive scale in the Mideast
• Emydomyces testavorans, a new shell-eating fungus in turtles
• Novel Rhabdovirus Isolated from a Harbour Porpoise
• Mycobacterium bovis in giraffe, KNP, South-Africa
• A.phagocytophilum in ticks, coinfection with B.burgdorferi and TBE virus, Ukraine
• Alongshan virus, China, transmitted by ticks ?
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Mexico
• Pathology and blood chemistry of plastic ingestion in marine birds
• Annual bacterial epizootics impacting an albatross population on a remote oceanic island
• Carnivore protoparvovirus 1 in free-living leopard cats and domestic carnivores in Taiwan
• Stress cardiomyopathy in stranded cetaceans: a histological, histochemical and immunohistochemical study
• 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