FIRST MEETING OF THE CONCERTED
ACTION
FAIR6 CT98-4361
EUROPEAN NETWORK ON WILDLIFE AS
RESERVOIRS OF PATHOGENS INCLUDING
ZOONOSES
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During the 16th-20th of June, 1999, it was celebrated the First General Meeting
of the European Network on Wildlife as Reservoirs of Pathogens including
Zoonoses (FAIR6 CT98-4361) at El Escorial (Spain).
The partners of the Network attending the Meeting were:
 F. de Veterinaria de Madrid (Spain)
 S. of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
 F. de Médecine Vétérinaire (Belgium)
 Moredun Research Institute (UK)
 F. of Veterinary Medicine (Greece)
 The National Veterinary Institute (Sweden)
 Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre del Acebuche (Spain)
 AFSSA-Alfort / AFSSA-Nancy (France)
 Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (Spain)
 Institute for Zoo Biology and Wildlife Research (Germany)
 Central Veterinary Laboratory (UK)
 National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (The Netherlands)
 Federal Institute for Health Protection of Consumers and Vet. Med. (Germany)
 Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Vétérinaires et Agrochimiques (Belgium)
The introduction was in charge of Dr. Briones, who explained the main
objectives. the contents of the technical annex and the origin of the Network
idea/conception.
The basic objective is to set up a relationship among centres within the
EU devoted to the research and diagnosis of wildlife diseases and
their implications for human and animal health.
Later on, he also explained the main tasks of the proposal:
 The european wildlife diseases catalogue.
 Epidemiological alert system / Disease data base system.
 The wildlife diseases laboratory system.
 Communication system.
 Co-operative research.
Finally, he thanked those participants who were going to act as moderators:
Dr.Reid, Dr.Gough, Dr.Artois, Dr.Dorrestein and Dr.Goyache.
After that, it took place the introduction of each representative by giving the
others an overall idea of their respective current work:
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Partner 1: Dpto. de Patología Animal I (Sanidad Animal), School of Veterinary
Medicine of Madrid (Spain); Dr. M. Blanco spoke about the Wildlife
Microbiology Diagnostic Laboratory at the Veterinary Faculty of Madrid. They
have agreements with Centres and organisations involved in wild and exotic
animal management, checking the health status by the diagnosis of bacterial
diseases.
Projects involving wildlife and exotic animals:
 “Stomatitis in Reptiles”
 “Prevalence of Salmonella in
Reptiles”
 “Treatment of Bumblefoot in
Raptors”
 “Bacterial
Diseases
in
Waterfowl”
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- Partner 2: School of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht (The Netherlands). Dr. G.
Dorrestein explained their work at the Department of Veterinary Pathology Section
Pet Avian, Exotic Animals and Wildlife with teaching facilities for the veterinary
students and clinical cases from private practicioners, zoos and wildlife animals;
they are also involved in legal cases and ecology management. The case load is
30% non-domestic mammals, 50-60% of avian and 15-20% of reptiles,
amphibians and fish cases. Their main researches are on:
 “Pharmacokinetics of different Drugs in Sick Animals”
 “Chlamydiosis”
 “Salmonella”.
 Iron storage disease
- Partner 3: Laboratorie de Bactériologie. F. of Médecine Vétérinaire of Liege
(Belgique). Dr. B. China presented their current work on:
 “Diagnosis of E.coli infection by PCR in humans and animals (including
wildlife)”.
- Partner 4: Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal, Valdeolmos (Spain).
Dr. J. M. Sánchez Vizcaino Laboratory was conducting researches on domestic
diseases (list A of OIE) and wild species:
 “African Swine Fever”
 “Recombination Vaccines for Wild Rabbits against Haemorragic Disease”
 “African Horse Sickness”
and environmental toxicology.
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They acted as one of the main points of the Reference Centres. Dr. Sánchez
Vizcaino gave an overview of the laboratory facilities, including level 3 and 4
biosecurity laboratories.
- Partner 5: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Thesalonike (Greece).
Dr. M. Papanastassopoulou, explained their activities at the Microbiology and
Infectious Diseases Department:
 teaching
 diagnosis of bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic diseases of domestic
animals
 research on:
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“West Nile Fever Virus in Wild Pigeons and
Streptopelia spp.”
“Encephalomyocarditis virus in rats”
“Hantavirus in Wild and Domestic Rodents”
“Rabbits Haemorragic Disease virus”
“European Brown Hares Syndrome viruses”
“Dypylidium caninum
and Echinococcus
granulosus isolated from Foxes, Wolves, etc.”
“Morbillivirus isolated from Dolphins” and so on.
- Partner 6: Department of Diseases Control and Biosecurity of the National
Veterinary Institute in Uppsala (Sweden). Dr. Marianne Elvander explained their
mission at the Department: the diagnostic and disease prevention with monitoring
and continuous control of diseases from farms and wild animals.
With the collaboration of the Wildlife Department they conducted research
on:
 “EPEC”
 “Salmonella Serotypes, Prevalence and Distribution in Sweden (cattles,
pigs, poultry, small birds at houses, cats and men)”
 “Campylobacter (poultry, wild boars, eagles)”
 “Bats Rabies”.
- Partner 7: Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre del Acebuche. Doñana
National Park (Spain). Dr. Celia Sánchez was working as a field veterinary of
50.000 Ha. with very different ecosystems. They planned the work with wild
diseases in four categories:
 “Health Monitoring of Sentinel Species (actually working on Bovine
Tuberculosis)”
 “Health Monitoring of Endangered Species (actually working on iberian
lynx Tuberculosis and Salmonellosis of imperial eagle)”
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the “Sanitary Warning System (analysis of any dead or sick animal found
in the National Park)” and
“Captive Wild Animals (health of the animals at captive breeding
programs)”.
- Partner 8: Wildlife Health and Management. AFSSA (France). Dr. Marc Artois
summarized the management of the SAGIR network. They collaborated with their
Agriculture Ministry and with wildlife veterinarian specialists. The SAGIR network
works like an Alert System of Wildlife trying to integrate on it all the new knowledge
concerning wildlife. They are researching on:
 “Rabies”
 “Acute intoxication on aquatic birds”
 “Haemmorragic Fever”
 “Mortality in deers”
- Partner 9: Moredun Research Institute. Edinburgh (UK). Dr.H. Reid explained
the big interest on wildlife diseases in Scotland. Their areas of researches
included a group concerned about “Mycobacterium Infection in Wildlife (avian
and Paratuberculosis prevalence in wild deers, rabbits, foxes, so on)”; they also
had a Pathology Group involved in wildlife, particularly in marine mammals which
are systematically sampling at rescue stations.
In virology they are researching on:
 “Parapoxvirus of squirrels, seals and deer”
 “Herpesvirus infections”.
In parasitology their main interests are on:
 “Neospora caninum in cattles and wild carnivores”
 “Criptosporidium program”.
- Partner 10: Zoo Biology and Wildlife Research Institute (IZW). Berlín (Germany).
The research group wildlife diseases at the IZW, head Dr.K. Froelich, is working on
zoo- and wildlife pathology with a routine diagnostic. Research emphasis is put on
the following topics:
 “Balanopostitis in European bison”
 “Chlamydial infections in ungulates”
 “Helicobacter in wild carnivores”
 “Canine distemper in wild carnivores”
 “Kidney diseases in wild cats”;
 “Newcastle diseases, Herpesvirus infections (FHV, OHV) and Chlamydiosis
in wild birds”
 “Thyreopathies in wild cats”
 “Lyme borreliosis in wild ungulates and carnivores”
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“Heavy metal and pesticides in wild birds”
“Avian parasites”
“Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) in wild ruminants”
“EBHS in hares as well as general health monitoring in European brown
hares”
“Alpha-herpesviruses in deer”
“Equine herpesviruses in wild equids”
- Partner 11: Virology Department at the Centre Veterinary Laboratory,
Addlestone, Surrey, (UK). Dr. R. Gough gave an overview about what it called the
Veterinary Laboratory Agency (or the CVL); their mayor researches on wildlife
diseases are:
 “Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis”
 “Tuberculosis”
 “Food zoonoses”
 “Rabies”
 “Salmonella”
 “Campylobacter”
 “Classic Swine Fever”, ...
Inside of the Avian Virology Diagnostic Unit, they researched on:
 “Avian Influenza in Migratory Waterfowl”
 “Newcastle Disease”
 “Duck Viral Enteritis”
 “Poxvirus infections”
- Partner 12: Microbiology Laboratory for Health Protection. National Institute of
Public Health and Environmental. Bilthoven (The Netherlands). Dr. J. Van der
Giessen Institute sections were:
 Vaccines production and development
 Public health researches
 Biomedical and chemical laboratories
 Environmental researches
At Public health researches, they were working on infectious diseases and
epidemiology and their main objective is to determinate and quantify the risks for
human microbiology pathogens from animals, water, food and environment.
They studied zoonotic diseases mainly in:
 “Microbiological food safety”
 “Transmission routes on parasitic zoonoses: Cryptosporidium, Giardia,
Cyclospora, Toxocara”
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“Viral zoonoses”
“Bacterial zoonoses: they were the Reference Centre for Salmonella”
“Reference Centre for Trichinella” and “Sentinel Laboratory
Echinococcus multilocularis”
Gastrointestinal pathogens: “risk of Salmonella infections”
“Public water health”
“Rabies in Bats”
“TBE”
“Trichinella in Wildlife (foxes and boars)”
“E.multilocularis as an Emerging Disease”
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- Partner 13: Federal Institute for Health Protection and Consumers and
Veterinary Medicine. Berlin (Germany). Dr.A. Kaesbohrer Institute main sections
were:
 Bacterial Epizootic and Zoonoses Control Division working on diagnosis
techniques and molecular biology, and
 The Diagnosis and Epidemiology Section working as an European
Community Reference Laboratory and Epidemiologic Zoonoses in which
they were researching on diagnosis of:
 Tuberculosis
 Rabies
 Brucella
 Trichinella
 Salmonella
control measures of:
 Campylobacter
 Echinococcus
 Listeria
 Rabies
 Toxoplasma
 Yersiniosis
 E.coli infections
They studied wildlife as source of contamination of food, livestock or
men, and as reservoirs of “Tuberculosis (Bovine Tuberculosis)”, “Brucella (cattles,
sheeps, goats and suids Brucellosis)”, “Trichinella situation in Europe”, “Rabies
cases in Europe (wildlife and domestic animals)”,...
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- Partner 16: Centre d’Etude et Recherches Vétérinaries et Agrochimiques.
Brusells (Belgium) Dr. J. Gofroid and Dr. F. Koenen wildlife researched projects
were:
 “Molecular Characterization and Epidemiology of the EMCV as a model of
an Emerging Disease, Pathology and Economical Implications”
 “Diagnostic and researches of Classic Swine Fever”
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* TASK 1: EUROPEAN CATALOGUE OF WILDLIFE
Moderators: Dr. Gough & Dr.Reid
Create/Establish a list as the result of a preliminary survey among potential
participants in an European Network on Wildlife as Reservoirs of Pathogens
including Zoonoses. It could be used as a previous document for the set up an
European Catalogue of Transmissible Diseases of Wildlife putting the emphasis
on zoonoses and on livestock plus wildlife diseases.
The criteria for a disease to be included in such catalogue were established
after a discussion among the participants reaching a final agreement on the
following points.
Diseases to be included:
1.- Diseases listed by OIE (A, B and wildlife diseases).
2.- Zoonotic diseases.
3.- Diseases affecting wildlife conservation.
4.- Diseases in which wildlife may act as reservoirs.
Avian diseases:
* Bacterial and Fungal diseases:
Salmonellosis
Pasteurellosis
Tuberculosis
Yersiniosis
Crytococcosis
Chlamydiosis Mycoplasmosis
Aspergillosis
Candidiasis
Botulism type C
Botulism type E
Campylobacteriosis
EHEC (E.coli 157 verotoxin) infections
In charge of Dr. Dorrestein.
* Viral diseases:
Influenza
Newcastle Disease
Marek Disease
Avian Pox
Adenoviruses
Tick-borne encephalitis
Raptor Herpesvirus
Other Paramyxovirus infections
Viral enteritis and hepatitis
(Duck virus hepatitis....)
In charge of Dr. Gough.
* Parasitic diseases:
Histomonosis
Coccidiosis
Haemoparasites,...
Trichomoniosis
Capillariasis
Crytosporidiosis
Trematodosis,
In charge of Dr. Krone.
Rodents and Lagomorphs diseases:
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* Bacterial and Fungal diseases:
Brucellosis
Tuberculosis
Yersiniosis
Murine Typhus
Salmonellosis
Tularaemia
Pasterellosis
Leptospirosis
Lyme disease
EPEC E.coli
Campylobacteriosis
Paratuberculosis
Ehrlichiosis
Dermatomycosis
Haemobartonellosis
In charge of Dr. Elvander (Dr.T. Morner).
* Viral diseases:
Rabies
Myxomatosis
Squirrel parapoxvirus
Borna disease.
Hantavirus
Cowpox
TBE
Rabbit Haemorrhage Disease
European Brown Hare Syndrome
EMCV (encefalomiocarditis)
In charge of Dr. Artois.
* Parasitic diseases:
Trichinellosis
Giardiosis
Coccidiosis
Cisticercosis
Leishmaniosis
Schistosomosis
Acariosis
Ticks
Echinococosis multilocularis as intermediate host
Ruminants and Suids diseases :
* Bacterial and Fungal diseases:
Brucellosis
Tuberculosis
Paratuberculosis
Leptospirosis
Salmonellosis
Lyme disease
Anthrax
Clostridial diseases
Q Fever
Farming deer enterotoxaemias
Listeriosis
Pasteurellosis
EHEC
Chlamydiosis
Infections by Moraxella sp.
Ehrlichiosis
Dermatomycosis
Erisipelothrix infection
Mycoplasmosis
In charge of Dr. Briones
* Viral diseases:
Influenza
Rabies
Orf
Viral fibroma of cervids
Classical and African Swine Fevers
Bovine Viral Diarrhoea
Aujeszky disease
Bovine Inmunodeficiency virus
Foot and Mouth disease
Swine vesicular disease
Viral respiratory diseases
Alphaherpesviruses
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In charge of Dr. Frölich
* Parasitic diseases:
Echinococcosis
Mange
Toxoplasmosis
Trichinelosis
Haemonchus
Ticks
Ascaridiosis
Hypoderma in deer
In charge of Dr. Van der Giessen.
Carnivores diseases (included fur seals, viverrids, mustelids):
* Bacterial and fungal diseases:
Tuberculosis
Leptospirosis
Aleutian disease
Brucellosis
Dermatomycosis
Bartonellosis
Salmonellosis
Mycobacterium
In charge of Dr. Van der Giessen
* Viral diseases:
Canine contagious hepatitis
Distemper
Feline panleucopaenia
Rabies
Parvovirosis
Feline leukaemia FIP
Feline inmunodefiency
In charge of Dr. Artois
* Parasitic diseases:
Echinococcosis
Neospora
Leishmania
Trichinellosis
Mange
Basylascarys
Toxoplasma
Dirofilaria
Toxocara infections
In charge of Dr. Van de Giessen.
Reptiles and Amphibian diseases:
* Bacterial and fungal diseases:
Salmonellosis
Aeromonosis
Mycobacterium.
* Viral diseases: herpesvirosis, other viruses
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In charge of Dr. Dorrestein.
Diseases of other zoological groups:
Cetacean and Pinnipeds:
Zoonoses: Brucellosis, Salmonellosis, Erisipelothrix,...
Viral: Parapoxvirus infections, Morbillivirus, Herpesvirus
Chiroptera
Mustelids (to be transferred to carnivores)
Zoonoses: Rabies, Brucellosis, Tuberculosis, Salmonellosis,...
Insectivore: in charge of Dr. Artois
Zoonoses: Salmonellosis, Leptospirosis, Dermatomycosis,
Mycobacteria, Foot and mouth disease
Transmissible to domestic animals: Coccidiosis, Crytosporidiosis...
Virus: Lyssavirus
Tularaemia,
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During the second day (18th of June, 1999) we were discussed the tasks 2, 3 and
4. As task 2 & 4 had a close relation they were developed together by Dr. Artois and
task 3 were moderated by Dr. Dorrestein and Dr.Briones.
* TASK 2 & 4: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ALERT & DISEASES DATA SYSTEMS &
COMMUNICATE SYSTEMS.
Moderator: Dr. Artois
Dr. Artois made an introduction about the development of an Alert & Data
Base Diseases System in Europe. He pointed the idea of “fighting” for the
maintenance of the human health by “avoiding” the most veterinary & economical
important diseases, with the possible threat for conservation. The way of working is
by detection, information and action.
He also explained how to know the survival of the wild animal diseases in
Europe: “There are a lot of people in Europe working on wildlife diseases that can
provide a lot of information about wildlife diseases in Europe: Zoo veterinary
associations, GEEFSM, WDA, FACE. WHO, Central Veterinary Officer, OIE
working groups of wildlife diseases”....
The sampling is very important too for knowing the prevalence of one specific
disease. There are several ways of collecting samples: there is the "Ad hoc"
sampling, the planned sampling, the samples from dead carcasses and the
samples from blood and tissue samples of living animals.
The sample is the first source of collecting information, and must be joined to a
reporting data base system that included the most amount of information we can
obtain about the sample:
 species
 number of animal
 body condition
 conservation,...;
about the pathological factors related with the mortality cause:
 suspicion
 pathogens isolated
 methods of determination
 necropsy
 prevalence of any microbe
 parasites
 radioactivity,...;
and about the different organs what had changed, histological examination, scan
pictures,...
The diagnostic expertise must be in charge of veterinarians, veterinary
pathology laboratories, institutes & miscellaneous institutions, references
laboratories national or international specific for one or two diseases and
collaborating centres.
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Dr. Artois also pointed that the most relevant for the Wildlife Network proposed
are the reports (“to make it useful for others people”): the annual EWDA report to
the OIE is the most useful one, with its recommendations for the wildlife (collect
information about Europe, list A and B diseases, mortality, aetiology of wildlife
diseases, vaccinations of wildlife population, treatments, list of pathogens of
wildlife diseases,...); the proceedings of wildlife scientific meetings, the special
reports (Rabies reports), the scientific papers and the bulletin as the Journal of
Wildlife Disease, Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine and BIPAS, are important
too.
The Alert System will permit to give information to people about diseases, as
Rabies or Classic Swine Fever, Brucellosis, Tuberculosis, Aujezsky,
Newcastle,..., that can involve others countries of the EU.
Another problem is that some diseases notified to the OIE (list A and B) can
block the exchange of animal productions between the EU frontiers. This is one
of the reasons that cause the Veterinary Officers did not consider diseases from
wildlife. It was proposed that these wildlife informs should not have to affect the
exchange of animals since the farming animals were not affected by the disease
and then, it will provide information about the kind of problems that can appear
and allow us to prepare a preventive program.
Recommendation from the Wildlife Network are to gather data from wildlife
diseases to the Standing Veterinary Committee and setting a system of
information on wildlife diseases as they have the competence on all animal
health and also in wildlife. They can, then, decide if a wildlife disease is
dangerous for all the animal population, just for the livestock or just for wildlife,
and then they can, also, decide to stop or not the animal export or import .
Finally. Dr. Artois proposed a workshop about the reporting system (about the
diseases of the Wildlife Diseases Catalogue) at May of 2000 because there are
no european report about wildlife disease at the moment. He also put forward
the idea of identify the “reporting person or institution” from each european
country which participate in the network (person in charge of collecting the
information) for knowing who reproach this kind of information to the OIE; to get
a person for “Notified diseases” and another for “Zoonotic diseases” (Dr.
Kässbohrer was proposed).
He also proposed to study the reports from the last 5 or 10 years to the May
Workshop to get a first idea of what is going on.
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* TASK 3: WILDLIFE DISEASES LABORATORY DIAGNOSTICS SYSTEM.
Moderators: Dr. Dorrestein & Dr. Briones
One of the proposal of this TASK was the identification of the wildlife
disease diagnosis laboratories. The idea was to establish a relationship among the
different laboratories with various specialities, the exchange of information about
the research or diagnostic activities, the adoption of standard procedures,
protocols and tests and the exchange of information, materials or personnel.
To elaborate a Catalogue of Laboratories and Techniques dedicated to
wildlife diseases with the exchange of techniques and protocols for the evaluation
and the establishment of standard procedures was also proposed. It was said the
importance of knowing:
 the techniques that are being used elsewhere
 the pathogens they are working with
 if they have any specialised, biosecurity or/and animal housing facilities
 if they are Reference Laboratories
 and the kind of sample they work with and the cost of the analysis.
Another point of the TASK was to establish a relationship among the
Research and Diagnostic Centres with Conservation Institutions:
1.- To develop a connection between the Research Laboratories working on
new diagnostic test, vaccines and therapeutics with other Centres (as National
Parks, Zoos, Rehabilitation Centres,...) and to connect the different laboratories
with their specialities making easy the exchange of information, the researches or
the diagnostic activities for the adoption of standard procedures, protocols and
test.
2.- From National Parks, Protected Areas and Animal Parks is important to
know if they have veterinary services, captive reproduction programs, in house
diagnostics of any disease and any kind of facilities.
3.- About Rehabilitation Centres, to know if they have any endangered
species, captive reproduction programs, health monitoring programs, in house
diagnostics and veterinary services.
It was said the importance of selecting, at the beginning, the rehabilitation centres
to include in the Network because of the great difference between them. The
relationship with these centres (officials and privates) was difficult so at the
beginning the wildlife network will be happy to receive information from the
rehabilitation centre that have a relation with official institutions.
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4.- In Wildlife Parks (Animal Parks, Games Parks and Zoos) is important to
know if they have any endangered species. Zoo are out at least they had
information about wildlife because they do not used to have a collection of
european wildlife on them (just African wildlife). The Games Parks must be out too
because they have to be consider as animal production farms, but if they have any
relation with Institutions they will be consider to put them on the list.
5.- Other Institutions to be consider as: museums (not to be considered
specifically, just if they have any research in wildlife diseases), biotechnology
centres (laboratories which are developing new vaccines or diagnostic techniques
that can be used for other laboratories or for vaccination of wildlife populations),
hunting organizations (that can provide important information about wildlife in
hunting areas) and Veterinary Schools (which work on wildlife animals).
People responsible of collecting these information are Dr. Briones and Dr.
Goyache who will gather the information in Madrid.
Another proposal of this TASK was to include in the Laboratories Catalogue
other centres related with wildlife and to identify which centres were working in
wildlife in Europe, including the Central Veterinary Officer, Reference laboratories,
hunting centres, local associations or veterinary associations.
These institutions must collect information that can be put in a data base,
indicating:
 the kind of animal species are working with (any endangered)
 if they have captive reproduction programs
 health monitoring programs
 if they make any in house diagnostics, facilities (housing, surgery,...),
veterinary services,...
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* TASK 5: COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS FOCUSED.
Moderator: Dr. Goyache
Dr. Goyache made an introduction about the situation of the Internet
Wildlife Network World: the Internet Wildlife Network will allow to open out a
communication system between the partners.
The information exchange that we can do with the electronic tools is
quicker and more effective than by other ways. We can follow up all these
information in real time and it is an easy and cheap way to archive and integrate
all the professional and not professional people working on wildlife.
The main problem is to know which information is necessary for the
Network.
Another problem is that several institutions have already a Website: the
European Wildlife Disease Association had a Web site with links that permitted to
surf to other web sites. The European Section of the Wildlife Diseases
Association is planning a Web page with information about wildlife; the OIE had
a Main page with sub-pages; and the National Wildlife Health Centre had one too
(they had partnerships, an electronic mailing list for professionals on wildlife and
links).
What does the European Network for Wildlife Diseases want to get from
its Network Web Site?:
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A Welcome page in a first step, including:
General information about wildlife, wildlife diseases and people working
on them.
General information about the wildlife network, with:
 links or contact address to the partners of the Wildlife Network
 links to the laboratories included in the Laboratories Catalogue
 the Laboratory System;
Useful information for people out of the network but working on wildlife,
Research projects on wildlife
The Catalogue of EU Wildlife Diseases
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With the laboratories facilities
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Aetiology of the diseases
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The importance of the disease in Europe in the last 10 years
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The number of cases in EU
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General disease background
News & meeting site with the workshops of the network.
Another point on the Web Site will be getting a regional (EU) and restricted
discussion list that will permit a fast verification (multiple sources) of any outbreak
and follow the international implications (the sudden onset, the potential for an
international spread,...) of a disease.
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The discussion list will include the partners of the Wildlife Network and some
guests will be ask to joint it. This will permit a free discussion between the
partners without intrusion of people not involved on it.
The Mailing System about wildlife health, with a restricted discussion list
will be create as well as another mailing list for administration proposed and
a Web Site Alert System, including:
 The disease
 The animal species
 Where it was found
 The number of animals
 The diagnostic technique,...
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PARTICIPANTS
ADDRESS
Artois, M.
AFSSA Nancy
BP 9
54220 Malzèville (France)
Phone: 03 83 298950
Fax.: 03 83 298959
Email: marc.artois@nancy.afssa.fr
Aznarte, P.
Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Microbiológico de
Animales Salvajes y Exóticos.
Dpto. de Sanidad Animal
Facultad de Veterinaria
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
Phone: +34 91 3943910
Fax.: +34 91 3943908
Email: pilarazn@eucmos.sim.com.es
Blanco, M.
Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Microbiológico de
Animales Salvajes y Exóticos.
Dpto. de Sanidad Animal
Facultad de Veterinaria
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
Phone: +34 91 3943718
Fax.: +34 91 3943908
Email: mblanco@eucmax.sim.ucm.es
Briones, V.
Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Microbiológico de
Animales Salvajes y Exóticos.
Dpto. de Sanidad Animal
Facultad de Veterinaria
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
Phone: +34 91 3943910
Fax.: +34 91 3943908
Email: vbriones@eucmax.sim.com.es
China, B.
Université de Liège
Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire
Laboratoire de Bactériologie
Sart Tilman B43a
B-4000 Liège (Belgique)
Phone: 32 4 366 4052
Fax.: 32 4 366 4056
Email: bchina@ulg.ac.be
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Colas, J.
GREFA
Apdo. 11
Majadahonda 28220
(Madrid) Spain
Phone: +34 91 6387550
Fax.: +34 91 6387411
Email: tatu@quercus.es
Dorrestein, G.M.
Dpt. Vet. Pathology
Section Pet Avian, Exotic Animals and
Wildlife
Utrecht University,
Yalelaan1, 3584 CL Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Phone: 0031 30 253 4357
Fax: 0031 30 253 3131
Email: G.M.Dorrestein@pobox.accu.uu.nl
Elvander, M.
National Veterinary Institute
SVA, PO Box 7073
S-75007 Uppsala (Sweden)
Phone: +46 18 674000
Fax: +46 18 674445
Email: marianne.elvander@sva.se
Fernández, E.
Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Microbiológico de
Animales Salvajes y Exóticos.
Dpto. de Sanidad Animal
Facultad de Veterinaria
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
Phone: +34 91 3943719
Fax.: +34 91 3943908
Email: efrieba@eucmax.sim.ucm.es
Frölich, K.
Institute for Zoo Biology and Wildlife
Research (IZW)
Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 17
10315 Berlin
(Germany)
Phone: +49 30 5168728
+49 172 9001490
Fax.: +49 30 5126104
Email: froelich@izw-berlin.de
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Galka, M.
Parque Natural de Doñana
c/ Santiago, 3
Almonte 21730 (Huelva) Spain
Phone: +34 959 450159
Fax: +34 959 450471
Email: pv2emgal@uco.es
pn.donana@cma.junta-andalucia.es
García Sánchez, A.
Patología Infecciosa
F. de Veterinaria, U.Ex.
Avda. de la Universidad s/n
Cáceres-10071 (Spain)
Phone: +34 927 257128
Fax.: +34 927 257110
Email: afrgcia@unex.es
Godfroid, J.
Centre d’Etude et de Recherches
Vétérinaires et Agrochimiques
99, Groeselenberg
B-1180 Brussels (Uccle) Belgium
Phone: +32 2 375 4455
Fax.: +32 2 375 0979
Email: jagod@var.fgov.be
Gough, R.
Dpt. Of Avian Virology
Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL)
KT 15 3NB (Weybridge) Surrey, UK
Phone: +44 1932 357349
Fax.: +44 1932 357856
Email: avian.virology@maff.gov.uk
Goyache, J.
Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Microbiológico de
Animales Salvajes y Exóticos.
Dpto. de Sanidad Animal
Facultad de Veterinaria
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
Phone: +34 91 3943795
Fax.: +34 91 3943908
Email: jgoyache@eucmax.sim.ucm.es
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Heras, A. Las
Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Microbiológico de
Animales Salvajes y Exóticos.
Dpto. de Sanidad Animal
Facultad de Veterinaria
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
Phone: +34 91 3943719
Fax.: +34 91 3943908
Email: herasrio@eucmax.sim.ucm.es
Hermoso, M.
Patología Infecciosa
F. de Veterinaria, U.Ex.
Avda. de la Universidad s/n
Campus Universitario
Cáceres-10071 (Spain)
Phone: +34 927 257129
Fax.: +34 927 257110
Email: mhermoso@tajo.unex.es
Hotzel, H.
BGVV
FG 425
Naumburger Str. 96 A
D-07743 Yena
(Germany)
Phone: +49 3641 804356
Fax.: +49 3641 804 283
Email: h.hotzel@bgvv.de
Kaesbohrer, A.M.
Community Reference Laboratory for
Epidemiology of Zoonoses (BGVV)
Diedersdorferloeg 1
12277 Berlin
(Germany)
Phone: +49 30 8412 2223
Fax.: +49 30 8412 2952
Email: a.kaesbohrer@bgvv.de
Koenen, F.
Department of Virology
Section of Epizootic Diseases
CODA-CERVA
Groeselenberg 99
B-1180 Ukkel (Belgique)
Phone: 32 2 375 4455
Fax.: 32 2 375 0379
Email: Frank.Koenen@var.fgov.be
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Krone, O.
Institute for Zoo Biology and Wildlife
Research (IZW)
Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 17
10315 Berlin
(Germany)
Phone: +49 30 5168405
Fax.: +49 30 5126104
Email: krone@izw-berlin.de
Papanastassopoulou, M.
Laboratory of Microbiology & Infectious
Diseases
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
54006 Thessaloniki. Greece
Phone: +30 31 999951
Fax.: +30 31 999959
Email: orestisp@vet.auth.gr
Reid, H.W.
Head of Virology Division
Moredum Research Institute
Pentlands Science Park,
Edinburgh EH26 OPZ
Scotland (UK)
Phone: +44 (0) 131 445 5111
Fax: +44 (0) 131 445 6111
Email: reidh@mri.sari.ac.uk
Sánchez Vizcaíno, J.M.
Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal
(CISA)
28130 Valdeolmos (Madrid) Spain
Sánchez, C.
Parque Nacional de Doñana.
Matalascañas.
Huelva. Spain
Phone:+34 959 448711/ 640
/133
+34 959 506170
Fax.:+34 959 448576
Email: ppereira@arrakis.es
Pndonana@mx3.redestb.es
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Tellez, S.
Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Microbiológico de
Animales Salvajes y Exóticos.
Dpto. de Sanidad Animal
Facultad de Veterinaria
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
Phone: +34 91 3943795
Fax.: +34 91 3943908
Van der Giessen, J.
Community Reference Laboratory for
Salmonella (RIVM)
Microbiological Laboratory for Health
Protection
Institute of Public Health and the
Environment
P.O.Box 1
3720 BA, Bilthoven
The Netherlands
Phone.: +31 30 2743926
Fax.: +31 30 2744434
Email: Joke.van.der.Giessen@rivm.nl
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