Description
The interrelationship between wild animal, domestic animals and human health is appreciated now more than ever before. This is because of the recognition of the involvement of wild animals in diseases of humans and domestic animals, the impact of disease on wildlife management and conservation biology, recognition of new forms of environmental contamination, and academic interest in disease as an ecological factor. Essentials of Disease in Wild Animals is the first introductory level book about disease in wild animals that deals with basic subjects such as the nature of disease, what causes disease, how disease is described and measured, how diseases spread and persist and the effects of disease on individual animals and populations. Gary A. Wobeser takes a general approach to health in wild animals, recognizing that disease is one ecological factor among many and that disease can never be considered satisfactorily in isolation. Rather than focus on individual causative agents and their effect on the individual animal, the emphasis is on why disease occurred, and on the complex interactions that occur among disease agents, the environment and host populations. 256 p.
- Gary A. Wobeser. DVM, PhD; Professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan (Canada).
- Publication date (reprint original edition 2005 to digital version): 2015-10.
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