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Rabies in endangered Ethiopian wolves.(Dispatches)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases  |  Date: 12/1/2004  |  Author: Argaw, Kifle; Knobel, Darryn L.; Kuzmin, Ivan V.; Laurenson, M. Karen; Randall, Deborah A.; Rupprecht, Charles E.; Shiferaw, Fekadu; Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio; Tallents, Lucy A.; Tefera, Zelealem; Williams, Stuart D.

With rabies emerging as a particular threat to wild canids, we report on a rabies outbreak in a subpopulation of endangered Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, in 2003 and 2004. Parenteral vaccination of wolves was used to manage the outbreak.

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During the last decade, infectious diseases have posed a major risk to small populations of wild vertebrates. Highly pathogenic infectious agents have been implicated in the decline and extirpation of a ...

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