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World

• • 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, Thailand

  • Inexpensive 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