When: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Time: 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST
The place: Zoom Webinar: Register
Presenters: Dr Rebecca Duerr, DVM MPVM PhD and JD Bergeron, CEO
Value: Free
“H5N1 avian influenza has now unfold to just about each a part of the world and is having main impacts on wild birds in addition to quite a few terrestrial, freshwater, and marine mammal species.”
~Amy Fraenkel, Government Secretary of Conference on Migratory Species (CMS)
The lethal 2.3.4.4.b pressure of extremely pathogenic avian influenza continues to have an effect on lots of of the world’s wild species, from condors, corvids, raptors, and terrestrial mammalian predators to seabirds and marine mammals.
In South America, the information is dire: Almost 40% of the Peruvian Pelican inhabitants was killed by this virus previously 12 months and wildlife researchers are involved in regards to the virus reaching Antarctic penguin colonies within the close to future.
Seabirds world-wide have been closely impacted – the information and pictures of useless breeding Caspian Terns this previous summer season within the Pacific Northwest and decimated seabird colonies on either side of the Atlantic have been heartbreaking.
With no treatment and an absence of fast detection exams, hen flu presents an rising problem to wildlife managers and rehabilitators worldwide. Tune into this essential webinar to find out about this illness and the way Worldwide Chicken Rescue is assembly the problem to proceed offering look after waterbirds regardless of this lethal illness.
Utilizing her scientific background, Chicken Rescue’s Director of Analysis & Veterinary Science, Dr. Rebecca Duerr DVM MPVM PhD will dive into what we all know in regards to the virus, and the pathways ahead in serving to wildlife address this illness. Dr Duerr has been on the forefront of this disaster, establishing efficient protocols, instructing and coaching different wildlife rehabilitators.
JD Bergeron, CEO at Chicken Rescue, will average and contact upon how the general public will help wildlife organizations reply to this dreadful illness.
