Wildlife Diseases

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an appreciation of the changing role of wildlife diseases as they relate to wild vertebrate species. The student will learn disease terminology and mechanisms, wildlife disease information resources, selected diseases of historic and current importance for the major Taxa, legal aspects of wildlife diseases, the opportunities for careers in wildlife disease investigation, and scientific writing as it relates to wildlife disease. In particular, the student will gain detailed knowledge of the ecology of diseases that affect wildlife species as well as domestic animals and humans, wildlife diseases with zoonotic potential, those having a significant economic impact on humans, and those which may threaten species survival.