Public Health Risk Due to Some Fecal-borne Pathogens in Zoo Animals and Zookeepers

Prevalence of Some Pathogens in a Population of Zoo Animals

Food-borne Pathogens and Public Health

Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in zoo animals in Pakistan

The study was carried out in zoo animals at Islamabad Zoo, Pakistan to know the prevalence of bovinetuberculosis. An overall prevalence of 3.3% was recorded in zoo animals with 3.6% in Bovidae, 3.2% inCervidae and 0% in Equidae families. The positive animals included spotted deer (1/3; 95% CI = 0.84,90.57), Chinkara gazella (1/5; 95% CI = 0.51, 71.64) and Blackbuck gazelle (1/30; 95% CI = 0.08,...

Health care workers' exposure to blood-borne pathogens in Lebanon.

BACKGROUND Accidental exposure to blood-borne pathogens (BBPs) is a risk for health care workers (HCWs). AIM To study the pattern of occupational exposure to blood and body fluids (BBFs) at a tertiary care hospital. METHODS This study reports a 17-year experience (1985-2001) of ongoing surveillance of HCW exposure to BBFs at a 420-bed academic tertiary care hospital. RESULTS A total of 1,...

Wildlife, Marine, and Zoo Animals

Gas bubbles were found in 15 of 23 gillnet-drowned bycaught harp (Pagophilus groenlandicus), harbor (Phoca vitulina) and gray (Halichoerus grypus) seals, common (Delphinus delphis) and white-sided (Lagenorhyncus acutus) dolphins, and harbor porpoises (Phocaena phocaena) but in only 1 of 41 stranded marine mammals. Cases with minimal scavenging and bloating were chilled as practical and necropsi...