Wildlife Conservation Society

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Health Programs
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Connecting the Health of Wildlife, People and
their Animals
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Humanity is currently plagued by 1709 known
pathogens. 49 of those are zoonotic Zoonoses
are 3x more likely to be emerging diseases
than non-zoonotic diseases Dr. Mark Woolhouse
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Gorilla and Human Health
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Capacity building
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Serology - Negatives Lab test results

• Polio
• Measles
• Ebola
• Dengue Fever
• Monkey Pox
• Reovirus
• Parvovirus

Data suggest animals have NOT been exposed and
have NO immunity
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Disease outbreak Investigations Post-mortem
exams
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Gorilla health data
Human health data
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Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and
Rapid Decline of Central African Wildlife
SCIENCE, Jan. 16, 2004
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Information Not Fear
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Who eats wildlife?
Libreville
Villages
Source Abernethy et al, Gabon, National Bushmeat
Survey 2/2000-11/2002
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Village level hunting
Gabon
168 households 3,870 sample days
Source Starkey, in prep
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LONDON, England (CNN) The SARS virus might
have originated in outer space, according to a
scientist in Britain. In a letter to The Lancet
medical journal, professor Chandra Wickramasinghe
of Cardiff University suggests the virus was
introduced to Earth on a comet or meteorite.
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WCS Asia Program TRAFFIC
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Pre-SARS outbreak

• Millions of Kg of wild animals traded annually
  without control

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Avian Influenza
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Evidence points to migratory wild birds as
victims not vectors
The main current threat to wild birds is not from
the virus itself but persecution by poorly
informed decisions and members of the public
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• Economic
• Environmental
• Social Cultural
• Security Stability

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INTER-SECTORIAL GAPS