Zoonotic Carriers
These organisms feed on squirrels, rabbits, other small wild mammals, and birds and swell with blood.
What are ticks?
There are 6 native tick species here in Alaska.
Treatment for Animals with Rabies.
What is NONE?
Class of diseases caused by PRIONS (protein infectious particles) which are non-living pieces of protein.
What are transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or Chronic Wasting Disease?
Animals often lose their fear of humans and may become vicious and attack for no reason. They may have a dropped jaw and appear to be "foaming at the mouth."
What is Rabies?
Treatment for tularemia.
What is antibiotics?
Snowshoe hares are the primary host. The disease is spread from an infected hare to a susceptible hare by means of ticks.
What is Tularemia. This is caused by a bacterium known as Francisella tularensis.
Squirrel or rabbit with many ticks on their face are likely infected with this bacteria.
What is Francisella tularensis or Tularemia
Treatment for trichinosis.
What is anti-parasitic medicine?
Eating undercooked walrus, seal, or bear is just as dangerous as eating undercooked pork.
What is Trichinosis (worm parasite)?
The Raven, Crow, Magpie, Steller's jay, Gray Jay, Blue Jay, Eagles, Falcons, Hawks, and Owls are all birds that become recognizably ill or die from this virus.
What is West Nile Virus?
Most infected animals will not show signs of illness and is not visible in the meat. However, moose may be dull, depressed, or have trouble walking or seizures.
What is toxoplasmosis?
Single-celled parasite. Cats (lynx) are the only hosts that can shed infected eggs (oocysts) into the environment where moose or other intermediate hosts can be infected.
Animals will have swollen leg joints causing limping or lameness (especially in the front legs).
What is Brucellosis?
Treatment for Chronic wasting disease.
What is NONE?
this highly infectious disease if found in domestic deer herds sometimes can lead to euthanizing the entire herd.
An acute respiratory illness in people that includes fever, chills, headach and gastrointestinal symptoms.
What is hantavirus?
(found in mouse feces)
This tapeworm needs two hosts: a carnivore (e.g., wolf or dog) and a herbivore (e.g., caribou). The adult tapeworm grows and lays eggs in the intestines of the carnivore.
What is the larvae of the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. (Cystic hydatid disease)
This parasite can infect bears (black, grizzly and polar bears), wolves, foxes (arctic and red), wolverine, lynx, walruses, seals, and ground squirrels.
What is the round worm Trichinella nativa (trichinosis).
Lifecycle: The larvae of the roundworm grow and mate in the intestines of the host animal. The females deposit larvae that travel in the blood to other parts of the body where they form cysts in the muscle. Animals become infected when they eat meat with cysts.
Elk, Deer or Moose have changes in behavior and may exhibit extreme weight loss, excessive salivation, stumbling and tremors.
What is Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)?
Treatment for Brucellosis.
What is antibotics for a minimum of 6 to 8 weeks?
Disease is limited to the western coastal portions of Alaska and islands such as St. Lawrence Island.
What is Alveolar hydatid disease?