Sentences with phrase «wildlife reservoir in»

Moreover, their results challenge the long - standing, but poorly substantiated view that Yersinia pestis must have had a permanent wildlife reservoir in Europe, such as the urban black rat.

Skunks, raccoons, foxes and coyotes are the dominant wildlife reservoirs in the United States.

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[241] The attractions and major tourist destinations of Ghana include a warm, tropical climate year - round; diverse wildlife; exotic waterfalls such as Kintampo Waterfalls and the largest waterfall in west Africa, Wli Waterfalls; Ghana's coastal palm - lined sandy beaches; caves; mountains, rivers; meteorite impact crater and reservoirs and lakes such as Lake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national parks.

Starting in 2004, the Corps began holding more water in reservoirs over the winter and spring to provide more water for fish and wildlife during the summer months.

The disease enters herds through the shipping of undiagnosed cattle, and from badgers, which are the main reservoir of the disease in wildlife.

The new evidence suggests repeated climate - driven re-introductions of the bacterium Yersinia pestis via the Silk Road system into European harbors from wildlife rodent reservoirs in Asian plague foci, with a delay of 10 - 15 years after pluvial periods that affected large parts of central Asia.

The raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), a wild canid found in East Asia and Europe, represents a potential wildlife reservoir for zoonotic diseases.

Without direction, these estimates are less informative but taken in conjunction with the low prevalence of bTB in New Zealand's cattle population it is likely that, currently, wildlife populations are acting as the main bTB reservoir.

Rabies is usually transmitted by bite wounds, often from infected wildlife, which represent the largest reservoir of the disease in the United States.

In the U.S., wildlife species such as raccoons, skunks, foxes, mongooses, and bats are endemically infected with rabies and serve as a continuous reservoir of infection for domestic species and people.

Metzger said Florida is an endemic state because of the reservoir of the rabies virus in the wildlife and because of the number of raccoons, prime carriers.

Canine vaccinations have significantly reduced endemics of canine distemper, hepatitis and parvovirus but NOT in wildlife reservoirs.

In other parts of the country, bats, skunks and foxes are the wildlife reservoir of rabies.

Long - term goals include year - round flea prevention for all pets in the household, limiting the pet's exposure to feral animals and outdoor wildlife that can be reservoirs for fleas, and treating the environment once a year with an IGR.

A decade of controversy after Winkler wrote, the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians conceded in the 1994 edition of their annual Compendium of Animal Rabies Control that «Continuous and persistent government - funded programs for trapping or poisoning wildlife are not cost effective in reducing wildlife rabies reservoirs on a statewide basis.»

The FWCC itself acknowledges the following: cats are the most common carriers of rabies among domestic animals, and can transmit rabies to wildlife such as raccoons, skunks an foxes; feline leukemia virus, a leading cause of death due to infectious disease in cats, has been reported in a mountain lion, a close relative of the endangered Florida panther; domestic cats were identified as one possible reservoir host for feline panleukopenia, which has been discovered in the Florida panther.

A short list of the areas where development is prohibited includes: areas adjacent to ground and surface water reservoirs and tributaries; mature forests; wildlife habitat; connecting zones; areas containing gravel, sand or limestone; and — just in case anything was missed by that wide net — areas where agricultural land predominates.