Case studies of interventions in wild animal welfare - disease & parasites

Case studies of interventions in wild animal welfare - disease & parasites

Questions:

Are there promising ways to prevent wild animals from suffering from disease & parasites?
  • Can some of this work reduce the human burden of disease too?
What work has been done already? What work might be done in the future?
  • What could 1 extra person do in this field? 10? 100?
Are there crucial issues from previous weeks where the view we take on them affects how good we think these interventions will be?
What advantages are there to working on disease & parasites? What disadvantages?
  • How do these pros and cons compare to the other case studies we will look at?
What new information would be most useful for this field?

Reading:

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Animal Ethics, Introduction to Wild Animal Suffering, p.24-34 and p.155 (30 mins)
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S. P. Sinkins and F. Gould, Gene drive systems for insect disease vectors (45 mins)

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