Gastrointestinal Diseases from Animals

Manali: After snow leopards, the rare Himalayan musk deer seems to have found a safe habitat in the cold, barren landscape of Lahaul-Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh, where the endangered animal is believed to be breeding safely and thriving. Residents of Lahaul have been claiming of spotting the elusive animal for long, but there are few photographic evidences. A person had captured the Himalayan musk deer in Miyar valley of Lahaul in 2018. Now, a photographer from Rashil village of Lahaul has captured a large number of photos and HD videos of the endangered deer in Lahaul valley in last few days. The photographer, Inder Jeet Bhanoo, claims he has been watching the animal every year in winter. Bhanu said he is not sure if he watched the same deer every year. "This time, I was ready with my camera. I captured many photos and videos in last three days. I saw it last on Tuesday. The animal descends to lower areas every year in winter in search of leaves when everything i...

Kazakhstan has expanded the list of animals in its Red Book, a state document listing endangered and protected species, to include Caucasian leopards, Przewalski's horses and even tigers, thereby making hunting of any of these creatures a criminal offense. There are, as things stand, only minute populations of Przewalski's horses and Caucasian leopards in Kazakhstan. And the Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources Ministry said on April 5 that there are plans to revive the native tiger population in the southern Balkhash region in the coming 15 years. The presence of the Persian leopard in western Kazakhstan has for many decades only been highly fleeting. Saken Dildahmet, a spokesman for the ministry's Forestry and Wildlife Committee, talked last March about how few images of the Persian Leopard have been captured by camera traps in the country. "As of today, starting from 2000, there have been four sightings of Persian Leopards in the territory of Kazakhstan, and t...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, though it can affect any organ in the body. It can develop when bacteria spread through droplets in the air. TB can be fatal, but in many cases, it is preventable and treatable. In the past, TB, or "consumption," was a major cause of death around the world. Following improvements in living conditions and the development of antibiotics, the prevalence of TB fell dramatically in industrialized countries. However, in the 1980s, numbers started to rise again. The World Health Organization (WHO) describe it as an "epidemic." They report that it is among the top 10 causes of death globally and "the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent." The WHO estimate that in 2018, nearly 10 million people around the world developed TB and 1.5 million people died from the disease, including 251,000 people who also had HIV. A majority of the people affected were in Asia. Ho...

WASHINGTON— Newly surfaced video shows Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, trying to kill an endangered savanna elephant in Botswana during a trophy hunt. The 2013 footage, released Tuesday by The New Yorker and The Trace, shows the NRA leader shooting and wounding an elephant and then failing to kill the animal with three shots at point-blank range. Savanna elephants were recently assessed as endangered on IUCN's RedList. "Savanna elephants were just declared endangered by international experts, and these intelligent beings certainly shouldn't be used as paper targets by an inept marksman," said Tanya Sanerib, international legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "It's sickening to see LaPierre's brutal, clumsy slaughter of this beautiful creature. No animal should suffer like this." In March the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced that elephants in Africa face ...

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HARLINGEN, Texas (KVEO) – A photograph of a young ocelot was released Tuesday by the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge on their Facebook page.   The endangered feline was captured through a trail camera on Thanksgiving Day last year at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge.   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: COVID-19 vaccination distribution in the RGV It is estimated that it was one to two months old at the time.   Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife servicing the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Hillary Swarts said the discovery was an exciting one.   "I think in my seven-plus years here [at Laguna Atascosa] that's the smallest cat we've seen on a camera," said Swarts.   In the United States, Texas is the only state with an ocelot population. Swarts says there are 80 or fewer known individuals living in Texas.   'The Voice': Rio Grande Valley singer joins Team Kelly At Laguna Atascosa, the current count is 17 ind...

The global market for hospital acquired diseases testing market is anticipated to gather momentum on account of the growing awareness about health, hygiene, and wellness amongst the masses. Insufficient measures to curb the menace of infections that could spread across hospitals results in hospital acquired diseases. The adverse effects of such carelessness have prompted the healthcare experts to pressurize hospitals and healthcare centers to continually conduct testing of hospital acquired disease testing. Furthermore, patient safety has become a norm, and many healthcare centers screen the patients for any extra acquired diseases before and after their treatment. This also drives demand within the global market for hospital acquired disease testing. Several regions including US have strict safety measures with regards to the testing of hospital acquired diseases. Moreover, the development of pathogens with drug-resistant abilities has helped healthcare centers and hospitals to effe...

The Primorye territory is home to anything between 200 and 400 Blakiston's fish owls. International efforts are on to save the beautiful species from extinction. When it comes to the fauna of the Russian Far East, it's the large cats that stand out. Well-publicized international conservation efforts to save the Siberian (Amur) tiger and the highly endangered Amur leopard have made these felines the unofficial mascots of Russia's eastern forests. However, the taiga of the Primorye territory, which borders North Korea, China and the Sea of Japan, are home to the largest living species of owl on the planet – the Blakiston's fish owl.  The world's largest owl, the Blakiston's fish owl, is hunting fish petr_mametev These beautiful owls have a wingspan of six feet, and are usually over two feet tall. The female is much larger than the male and can weigh up to 4.5 kg.   Their habitat extends into Hokkaido, Japan and China's Heilongjiang province. ...

Herpes zoster reactivation -- a.k.a. shingles -- following COVID-19 vaccination in six patients with comorbid autoimmune/inflammatory diseases may be a new adverse event associated with the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, suggested a new report. At two centers in Israel, there have been six cases of herpes zoster developing shortly after administration of the Pfizer vaccine in patients with disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis since December 2020, according to Victoria Furer, MD, of Tel Aviv University, and colleagues. Little has been known about the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines among patients with rheumatic diseases, because immunosuppressed individuals were not included in the initial clinical trials, they explained. Accordingly, an observational study has been conducted at the Tel Aviv Medical Center and the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, monitoring post-vaccination adverse events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathies, connective tissu...

In the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of new infections for each of the three major viruses varies between 23,000 to 50,000 cases annually. HAV triggered sepsis rarely produces long-term liver damage; but both HBV and HCV may produce protracted harm. About 1 million Americans are living with chronic HBV and 3 million with persistent HCV.

The Lacerte Family Children's Zoo is now home to three Arapawa goat kids, and one of them still needs a name. On April 3, Daisy, a goat at the Dallas Zoo, gave birth to one male and one female kid. The following day, a second goat named Susan gave birth to a female kid. The Dallas Zoo said that in keeping with their theme of naming goat kids after native Texas plants, Daisy's male kid will be named Oleander, or "Ollie" for short. Daisy's female kid will be named Aster. Dallas Zoo officials are asking the public to choose the name they like the most for Susan's female kids: Bluebonnet, Clover, or Fern. Votes for the goat kid's name can be cast on the Dallas Zoo website. Arapawa goats are one of the most critically endangered goat breeds in the world, with just an estimated 300 individuals remaining in their native New Zealand, the Dallas Zoo said.

Stewart Lundy and Natalie McGill think Americans should eat less meat. That's in part why they, somewhat counterintuitively, started a livestock farm. Globally, meat and dairy account for between 14.5% and 18% of greenhouse gas emissions. According to a study by the advocacy group GRAIN and the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, the five largest livestock-based producers combined emitted more in 2017 than ExxonMobil, Shell or BP — and emissions have since risen. President Biden plans to cut U.S. emissions in half, compared to 2005 levels, by 2030. Doing so will require reductions in the agricultural sector but questions remain about how to make it happen. Activists have long called for consumers to go vegan or, at least vegetarian. But only 3% of Americans are vegan and 5% are vegetarian, shares that have barely increased since 2012. Lundy and McGill started Perennial Roots in 2010 by converting 50 acres of conventional farmland in Accomack County, Virginia, ...

Tennessee is the home of country and western music—the kind of music that most cowboys like to listen to. Tennessee is also home to many thousands of cattle—roaming over endless waves of timbered hills and hollows. But Tennesseans in general are not much interested in cowboy hats or rawhide bosals, and most of them prefer three-wheelers to horses when it comes to working cattle. Any sure-'nuff puncher who happens to find himself wandering over the brush­choked, limestone ridges of this part of the country is likely to feel about as comfortable as a coyote in church. Ten­nessee is not buckaroo country. But, all is not darkness. There is an oasis in this unsettling environment—a place where a cowboy can go to find solace and comfort. No, it is not the Jack Daniels distillery, though that might seem a pretty good choice. Rather, it is a ranch about 30 miles east of Nashville, near the tiny town of Mt. Juliet. Here, a small crew of out-west­-minded cowboys keep the dream alive. This ...

Maoto, a rare male white rhino, arrived at Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park from San Diego Zoo Safari Park to kick off one of the conservation's breeding programs. The project is set to bring in completely new blood lines to improve genetic diversity for managed populations and help fight against extinction. As part of Wildlife World's dedication to rhino conservation, the zoo has been consulting, researching and planning its innovative breeding program as part of the completed rhino facility that opened in early 2018. "It's immensely rewarding to know that Wildlife World had the resources and capabilities to import our female rhinos from Africa where they are no longer at risk of being slaughtered by poachers and provide them and Maoto a natural environment to procreate," said Kristy Morcom, Wildlife World's director of media relations.  "This breeding program has been nearly a decade in the making, and it feel...

Last January, few would have predicted that a pandemic would upend our daily lives and place the world in its morbid grip. Reports of devastating illness and death—some based on fact, others on speculation—circulated through news networks as the threat of the virus ran rampant across countries. Many reputable organizations and associations, including the World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offered resources to combat disinformation and reassure pet owners and society at large that, as currently evidenced, neither domestic dogs nor cats could be a source of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection to humans or other animals. 1-3 Although these reports shined much needed light on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; the virus that causes COVID-19) in pets as an emerging disease event, many questions were left unanswered. However, as time passes an...