Final Report Michigan Chronic Wasting Disease Task ForceShow Full Record234
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Michigan Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force. (2003). Final report Michigan Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force. Lansing, MI : State of Michigan.
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Management Plans and Reports
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Chronic wasting diseaseEmerging infectious diseasesSurveillance (monitoring)
Abstract:
A 31-page report from 2003 outlining recommendations of the Michigan Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Task Force to the governor of Michigan on how best to control and prevent the spread of CWD into the state. Their twelve recommendations are the result of input from other state agencies, chronic wasting disease experts, cervid industry representatives and other interested groups. The appendix includes a bibliography of over 80 CWD related articles and a list of task force members and other signifi...
Social Impacts of Emerging Infectious Disease [Book Sidebar]Show Full Record1476
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Friend M. 2006, Disease Emergence and Resurgence: The Wildlife-Human Connection: Reston, Va., U.S. Geological Survey, Circular 1285, 32-35 p.
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Issue Overviews, Maps, Photographs
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Chronic wasting diseaseEmerging infectious diseasesSocial aspectsUnited StatesWest Nile virus
Abstract:
From introduction: "Disease affects our economy, behavior, and governmental regulations. Thus, emerging infectious diseases often have impacts that extend far beyond the clinical manifestations of specific diseases on individuals, the economic costs for diagnosis and treatment, and those collective costs on individuals, families, and populations." AIDS, chronic wasting disease and West Nile virus are as examples to illustrate these other social impacts disease has on society. Taken from the chap...
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