ENWC201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chronic Wasting Disease, Methylmercury, Epizootic

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Entomology and Wildlife Conservation
• Course: ENWC201
• Professor: Mc Carthy Kyle

Document Summary

Why are we concerned about wildlife diseases: they can be transmitted to us (humans) or our pets, if animals die, we will see a decrease of wildlife diversity and have less genetic diversity. Basic disease vocabulary: disease: a disturbance of the normal function or structure of an organism, infectious: viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites (internal and external, pathogen: a disease-causing agent; pathogen creates hole in the brain a. i. Examples: chronic wasting disease (cwd: non-infectious: toxins (manmade, plant, fungal, or bacterial), traumatic, physiological, nutritional, congenital, degenerative (cancer) Product of coal and other fossil fuel power generators a. i. 3. Also emitted when items with mercury are incinerated (thermometers, batteries, light switches, fluorescent bulbs) a. i. 4. Bio-accumulates, bio-magnifies: epizootic: a disease that appears at an unexpected rate, synonymous with epide humans. Host: the organism on or in which another organism lives a. i. 5. Vector: an organism that carries pathogens from one host to another a. i. 7. a. Biological vector (pathogen in blood aka mosquito) a. i. 7. b.