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

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

Questions:

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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?

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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?

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Are there crucial issues from previous weeks where the view we take on them affects how good we think these interventions will be?

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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?

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What new information would be most useful for this field?

Reading:

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G. Ray, Parasite Load and Disease in Wild Animals (40 mins)

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Animal Ethics, Introduction to Wild Animal Suffering, p.24-34 and p.155 (30 mins)

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J. Capozzelli, Reducing the burden of disease: the One Health approach (15 mins)

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Wildlife Health and Disease Challenge Grant (10 mins)

e.g. Validation of a novel oral anthrax vaccine for native and exotic wildlife in Texas (5 mins)

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Animal Ethics, The potential to reduce the suffering of animals living in the wild by using eDNA sampling (30 mins)

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S. P. Sinkins and F. Gould, Gene drive systems for insect disease vectors (45 mins)

You might instead read this more accessible blogpost: "Gene Drives" And CRISPR Could Revolutionize Ecosystem Management

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