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