2nd Annual Conference - June 2003

Rotterdam Zoo Eauditorium in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Saturday, June 14, 2003

Central Theme: Health Aspects of Translocation and Reintroduction of Wildlife

Abstracts

• Introduction by chair (Thijs Kuiken) [no abstract available].
• Keynote lecture: Infectious disease risks of translocation and reintroduction of wildlife. (Beth Williams, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Wyoming University, U.S.A) [no abstract available].
• Morning session
  • Conservation medicine in action: Were the rhino’s translocated from South Africa the cause of a severe disease outbreak in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania? (Sabine Hilsberg, Head of Research, Frankfurt Zoo, Germany).
  • Risks of Koi herpes virus since its introduction to the EU (Olga Haenen, Fish and Shellfish Diseases Laboratory, CIDC-Lelystad, The Netherlands).
  • Surveillance of wildlife diseases on the European scale (Marc Artois, Unité de Pathologie Infectieuse, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon, France).
• Keynote lecture: Nature conservation and reintroductions in The Netherlands. (Hugh Jansman, Alterra – Centre for Ecosystems, Wageningen, The Netherlands).
• Early afternoon session
  • Cobalt deficiency in a population of Sardinian mouflon (Ovis ammon musimon) in the National Park “De Hoge Veluwe”, the Netherlands (Sjeng Lumeij, Division of Avian and Exotic Animal Medicine, Dept. of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Utrecht University, The Netherlands).
  • Toxic dinoflagellates and mussel transports (Marnix Poelman, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research RIVO, The Netherlands).
• Late afternoon session
  • Micronutrient deficiencies and embryo mortality in wild birds: role of vitamins. (Arnold van den Burg, Netherlands Institute for Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Heteren, The Netherlands).
  • Vaccination of non-domestic carnivores (Joost Philippa, Institute of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands).
  • Risk of paratuberculosis for wildlife in The Netherlands (Douwe Bakker, ID-Lelystad, The Netherlands).
  • Influenza A virus surveillance in wild birds in Northern Europe (Vincent Munster, Institute of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands).
• Closing speech: Fowl plague, SARS… what next? (Ab Osterhaus, Institute of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands).
  
  

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