Archive for December, 2020

CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR- ZOO MED/WILDLIFE

CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR- ZOO MED/WILDLIFE

Full time, clinical and teaching position in the Zoological Medicine Group within the Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine.

December 2, 2020 Job Postings
Recent Articles on Plastics in Wildlife

Recent Articles on Plastics in Wildlife

Recent articles by The Wildlife Society and the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative blog.

December 2, 2020 News, Research & Publications

Veterinary Internship in Wildlife Medicine (post-DVM), Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, a fast-growing wildlife rehabilitation center in Goleta, CA, is seeking a veterinary intern for a year-long period to run from June of 2021 through May of 2022.

December 2, 2020 Job Postings

Bighorn Sheep Disease Research-MS Graduate Assistantship, South Dakota State University

South Dakota State University, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks, and Washington State University are recruiting a motivated M.S. student to explore the role of chronic shedders of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in respiratory disease persistence and transmission, and annual lamb recruitment in bighorn sheep.

PhD Assistantship in Amphibian Disease Ecology at the University of Vermont

The University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources is seeking a Ph.D.-level graduate student to conduct research on community disease ecology in an amphibian system

Postdoc in wildlife disease ecology, University of Arkansas

The successful applicant will join a multidisciplinary team using empirical experiments, laboratory diagnostic tools, and statistical and mathematical modeling to investigate the individual and interactive effects of food resources and helminth coinfections on virus infection dynamics in wildlife.

December 2, 2020 Job Postings
The Effect of Maternal Antibodies on Clinical Response to Infection with Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus in White-tailed Deer Fawns

The Effect of Maternal Antibodies on Clinical Response to Infection with Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus in White-tailed Deer Fawns

The presence of maternally derived EHDV-2 antibodies in fawns may prevent or greatly reduce clinical disease and the level and duration of viremia.

December 2, 2020 Research & Publications
WEST NILE VIRUS INFECTION IN RUFFED GROUSE IN PENNSYLVANIA: A MULTI-YEAR COMPARISON OF STATEWIDE SEROSURVEYS AND VECTOR INDICES

WEST NILE VIRUS INFECTION IN RUFFED GROUSE IN PENNSYLVANIA: A MULTI-YEAR COMPARISON OF STATEWIDE SEROSURVEYS AND VECTOR INDICES

A 3-yr statewide survey was conducted across Pennsylvania to measure flavivirus (i.e., WNV) seroprevalence among hunter-harvested grouse.

December 2, 2020 Research & Publications
PLASMA BIOCHEMISTRY AND PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS REFERENCE INTERVALS OF THE COMMON LOON

PLASMA BIOCHEMISTRY AND PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS REFERENCE INTERVALS OF THE COMMON LOON

This study determined reference intervals for plasma biochemical values in adult common loons, and reference intervals for protein electrophoresis values in both adult and juvenile common loons.

December 2, 2020 Research & Publications
Role of wolves in limiting the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease

Role of wolves in limiting the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease

Could wolves help limit the spread of chronic wasting disease through the “predator cleansing effect?”

December 2, 2020 News, Research & Publications