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Geographical Distribution of Carnivore Hosts and Genotypes of Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) Worldwide: A Scoping Review and Spatial Meta-Analysis

By amyvangelderConservation Papers, WVI CDVNo Comments
Abstract: Background: Emerging viral diseases are spreading to new geographic locations, influenced by human activities and climate change. Morbillivirus canis (also known as canine distemper virus, CDV), the etiological agent...
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10th March 2025
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Canine Distemper Virus Spillover Into Wildlife Population in Kampung Besul Lama, Terengganu Malaysia

By amyvangelderConservation Papers, WVI CDVNo Comments
Abstract: Human wildlife gap has shrunk due to urbanization and agricultural expansion. Domestic animals and wild mammals are pushed closer together, enabling disease transmission between the two groups. Recent discovery...
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9th October 2024
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Disease threats to tigers and their prey

By estherconwayConservation Papers, WVI CDVNo Comments
Abstract: The contraction of the global tiger population over the last 100 years into small, often isolated subpopulations has made them increasingly vulnerable to the impact of disease. Despite this, the...
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11th July 2024
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Protecting Wildlife and Communities: The Crucial Role of Spaying Dogs

By amyvangelderBlog, WVI CDV
Domestic and stray dogs have long proved problematic to people, livestock, and wildlife in landscapes inhabited by tigers and leopards Unneutered and unvaccinated dogs can carry diseases that could be...
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27th February 2024
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Canine Distemper Virus in Tigers and Leopards in Nepal

By amyvangelderConservation Papers, WVI CDV
Abstract: From wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in the Serengeti to tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) in the Russian Far East, canine distemper virus (CDV) has been repeatedly identified as a threat...
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2nd January 2024
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Podcast: Are we making tigers and their prey sick? Pt. 3 Canine Distemper Virus

By amyvangelderBlog, WVI CDV
While global attention is currently focused on COVID-19, a disease that has jumped from animals to humans, it is important to remember that diseases that breach the species barrier also...
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8th April 2022
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Vaccination of tigers is a solution to CDV

By estherconwayNews, WVI CDV
An Amur tiger caught on camera in the Russia Far East © Kerley/ZSL A new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America...
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26th November 2020
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Distemper, extinction, and vaccination of the Amur tiger

By estherconwayConservation Papers, WVI CDV
Abstract Canine distemper virus (CDV) has recently emerged as an extinction threat for the endangered Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica). CDV is vaccine-preventable, and control strategies could require vaccination of...
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25th November 2020
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Canine Distemper Confirmed in Far Eastern Leopard, World’s Most Endangered Big Cat

By amyvangelderBlog, Conservation Papers, News, WVI CDV

17 January 2018, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a paper, published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases officially documenting the first case of Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) in a two-year-old,…

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22nd February 2018
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illustration for canine distemper virus in a far eastern leopard

Conservation Paper | Canine Distemper Virus in a Wild Far Eastern Leopard Panthera pardus orientalis

By amyvangelderBlog, Conservation Papers, WVI CDV

A publication on CDV in a Far Eastern (Amur) leopard co-authored by our ZSL veterinarian in the Russian Far East, Mikhail Goncharuk, in Journal of Wildlife Diseases. The Far Eastern…

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1st November 2017
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Dog Population Census

By amyvangelderWVI CDV, ZSL RussiaNo Comments
To understand infectious disease circulation between domestic and wild populations of carnivores – biological material sampling is not enough. For good epidemiological study, it is also necessary to collect detailed...
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7th February 2014
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Canine distemper virus: an emerging disease in wild endangered Amur tigers

By estherconwayConservation Papers, WVI CDV
Abstract Fewer than 500 Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) remain in the wild. Due to low numbers and their solitary and reclusive nature, tiger sightings across their range in the...
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25th August 2013
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Pathogen evolution and disease emergence in carnivores

By estherconwayConservation Papers, WVI CDV
Abstract Emerging infectious diseases constitute some of the most pressing problems for both human and domestic animal health, and biodiversity conservation. Currently it is not clear whether the removal of...
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25th December 2007
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