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Journal of Wildlife Diseases
WDA
Officers:
Lynn Creekmore,
President
Dolores
Gavier-Widén,
Vice-President
Pauline Nol,
Secretary
Laurie Baeten,
Treasurer
Charles van Riper
III,
Past President
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Preliminary Announcement for the Ninth EWDA
Conference, 2010
‘The interface between wildlife diseases and public
health’
The next EWDA conference will be held from 13 to 16
September 2010 on the island of Vlieland, The Netherlands.
Vlieland is a sparsely populated island of 12 x 2 km
that lies between the North Sea and the Wadden
Sea. The Wadden Sea is famous for its rich flora and fauna, and is a
major stopover location for migrating
waterbirds. Its landscape is made up of dunes, salt meadows, mud flats,
beaches, polders and forests. Cars are forbidden except for the
islanders, but the island is best explored by bicycle anyway.
Zoonotic wildlife diseases threaten not only wild
animals, but through these also domesticated animals and humans.
Emerging infectious diseases are known to arise for 75% from the animal
reservoir, in which wildlife plays an important role.
The conference central theme, ‘ The interface between
wildlife diseases and public health’, bridges animal and human
health, and will therefore be of great interest for people from many
different disciplines, ranging from both public health
professionals and wildlife diseases specialists, to ecologists,
biologists, epidemiologists et cetera.
The scientific committee is currently working on a
programme that will cover different aspects of wildlife
zoonotic diseases. Topics that will be addressed include the different
pathogens (and their vectors) of present and future interest for
wildlife, domestic animals and humans, and also related topics such as
climate change and its impact on the ecology of certain species,
human behaviour and altered risk for contact with reservoir/
vector species, the impact of import of exotic species and migration of
wildlife species.
Next to plenary sessions, different workshops will be
organised. And of course, ample time for meeting
friends and colleagues is scheduled, be it during the breaks or during
excursions. Vlieland is the right place to get a breath of really
fresh air. After this conference, your heart will be free of troubles
while your head will surely be full of interesting new scientific
knowledge.
Please, note this date in your agenda and watch the
EWDA website, further information and the possibility to register
and send your abstracts will follow soon!
For tourist information you can look at: www.waddenzee.nl or www.vlieland.nl
Opportunity for Workshops at EWDA 2010
We have left Monday 13 September free for people who would like to
organize workshops in conjunction
with the EWDA conference. At the conference hotel, Hotel Seeduyn, which
is perched on the dunes overlooking the North Sea, we have
reserved six rooms with a capacity ranging from 30 to 112 people.
People who are interested in organizing a workshop should apply to Thijs Kuiken
(t.kuiken@erasmusmc.nl).
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