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Exotic virus spreads across Northeast; researchers worry about wildlife
Exotic virus spreads across Northeast; researchers worry about wildlifeWith each passing week, the damage wrought by the West Nile virus on the…
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Review finds U.S. animal disease control system adequate, but needing improvement
A review of the nation's ability to protect livestock and poultry against foreign animal diseases describes the state of disease
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Exotic pets create prickly situation for owners, veterinarians
Pet buyers are fueling the illegal importation of tenrecs from Madagascar.
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Exotic Newcastle disease strikes game birds in California
Several premises in metropolitan Los Angeles were quarantined in early October after exotic Newcastle disease
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Emergency declared: exotic Newcastle disease found in commercial poultry farms -
Posted on February 1, 2003 Infectious avian virus threatens California's $3 billion poultry industry At press time in January, an outbreak of…
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Additional commercial flocks in California stricken by Newcastle disease
Posted on March 15, 2003 State's egg industry hit hard A highly contagious avian disease reported late last year in privately owned backyard…
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State veterinarians, epidemiologists advocate restrictions on wildlife trade
The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists have
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International movement of exotic wildlife
The Executive Board has approved the expansion of a policy statement to include the international movement of wildlife.
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Sea otter recovery act an AVMA priority
The Executive Board has made it a high priority of the AVMA to see that legislation designed to preserve and study the southern sea otter
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Wildlife pets create ethical, practical challenges for veterinarians
An astute veterinarian was the first to alert public health authorities to the monkeypox outbreak in the Midwest in May 2003
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Laws take aim at wildlife pets
On June 2, Minnesota became the latest state to prohibit residents from possessing dangerous wild animals as pets.
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Maryland starts poultry registration program
The Maryland Department of Agriculture recently announced a mandatory Domestic Poultry and Exotic Bird premises registration
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Where the wild things are
Animals found refuge recently at the Willowbrook Wildlife Center in suburban Chicago. Any of them could have shown up at a local veterinary clinic.
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Minimizing urban wildlife conflict is institute's goal
A multiyear study currently under way in Chicago aims to identify how best to minimize conflict between people and urban wildlife.
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Exotic Newcastle kills birds near California
About 10,000 chickens died as a result of exotic Newcastle disease and more than 10,000 others were depopulated during containment efforts following…
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Prairie dog bait banned in four states
Using a particular rodenticide for controlling prairie dog populations is now a federal offense in four states.
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How big is Florida's python problem?
New restrictions on the constrictor-snake trade are meant to prevent a repeat of what has happened with the Burmese python in the Florida Everglades.
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A regulator and source of aid, born in civil war
The Department of Agriculture has grown from a collector and distributor of farming information during the 1860s to, today, a
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Declawing captive exotic and wild indigenous cats
The AVMA condemns declawing captive exotic and other wild indigenous cats for nonmedical reasons.
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UNDER REVIEWWildlife-livestock interactions
The AVMA supports use of science-based evidence and peer-reviewed research to direct wildlife-livestock management policies, and funding to research…
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Wildlife policies stress education, captivity requirements
In June, the AVMA began more strongly encouraging education for those who would privately own potentially dangerous wildlife as well as endorsing…
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Hollywood Vet receives AVMA Award
Many know Dr. James F. Peddie for his work with Hollywood animals, but his career has spanned a spectrum of activities.
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Opening session features message of conservation
A menagerie of exotic animals accompanied keynote speaker Joan Embery, an advocate of wildlife conservation, as she helped to kick off the AVMA Annual…
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The CDC for wildlife
Established in 1975, the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center is at the forefront of wildlife health research for