Publications by authors named "Aleksija S Neimanis"
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- In 2010, a new virus called RHDV2 (or Lagovirus europaeus GI.2) was discovered, which can make both rabbits and some hares sick, unlike earlier viruses that only affected one species at a time.
- Researchers found that mountain hares on Hallands Väderö island were getting really sick and dying from this new virus, which was confirmed through tests on their bodies.
- This was the first time GI.2 was found in mountain hares, showing that the virus can spread to new types of animals, likely coming from an outbreak happening nearby on the mainland.
The biliary trematode Pseudamphistomum truncatum parasitizes a wide range of fish-eating mammals, including humans. Here we report the emergence of this parasite in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) in the Baltic Sea. One hundred eighty-three of 1 554 grey seals (11.
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- In March 2005, a disease called bovine tuberculosis was found in a group of bison being helped to recover in Hook Lake.
- The study looks into where the bacteria that causes this disease might have come from.
- It also talks about the challenges of saving healthy bison from a group that has the disease.
Forty-one outbreaks of mortality in wild finches were reported in southern Norway, Sweden, and Finland in the second half of 2008 (n = 40) and in February 2009 (n = 1). Greenfinches (Carduelis chloris) and occasional chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs) primarily were affected. Forty-eight greenfinches, eight chaffinches, one hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), and one blue tit (Parus caeruleus) from 22 incidents were examined postmortem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a sporadic disease of artiodactyls caused by several viruses in the Gammaherpesvirinae. We report two cases of MCF in free-living moose (Alces alces) from Saskatchewan. One was a thin, dehydrated, adult male found recumbent in 2006.
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