David John Gregory, Rowland Tinline

Taking the Bite Out of Rabies

The Evolution of Rabies Management in Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking the Bite out of Rabies records the evolution of rabies management and control in Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 288mm x 221mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1811g
• ISBN-13: 9781487504281
• ISBN-10: 1487504284
• Artikelnr.: 54611266

Autorenporträt

Dr. David Gregory was the Chief of Poultry and Zoonotic Diseases at the Canadian Food and Inspection Agency and, following his retirement, carried out consultancies for Health Canada, the Canadian Executive Services Overseas in Russia, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part 1: The Basics of Rabies in Canada
Overview
1. A Rabies Primer
2. Domestic and Wildlife Rabies Incidence in Canada
3. Human Rabies in Canada
a) The Myth of the Duke of Richmond
b) Human Rabies
Part 2: The Role of Federal Agencies in Rabies Management
Overview
4. The Federal Department of Agriculture
5. Health Canada and Rabies
Part 3: History of Rabies Management in the Provinces
Overview
6. British Columbia
7. Alberta
8. Saskatchewan
9. Manitoba
10. Ontario
11. Quebec
12. Maritimes
13. Newfoundland and Labrador
14. Canada’s North
a) Yukon
b) Northwest Territories
c) Nunavut
d) Nunavik
Part 4: The Development of Vaccines and Delivery
Systems
Overview
15. Rabies Vaccines in Canada
a) Human Vaccines
b) Domestic Animal Vaccines
16. Regulation of Vaccines in Canada
17. Oral Vaccine Development in Canada
a) Oral Vaccines
b) Bait Development
c) Bait Production
18. Testing Wildlife Rabies Vaccines at Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield
(former Animal Diseases Research Institute)
19. The Development of Aerial Baiting
Part 5: Data Collection and Diagnostic Methods
Overview
20. Laboratory Development and Standard Basic Diagnostic Methods for Rabies
in Canada
21. Passive Surveillance
22. Collection and Transport of Specimens
23. Genetic Methods for Rabies Diagnosis and Rabies Virus
Typing Techniques
24. Ancillary Approaches
a) Enhanced Surveillance in Quebec
b) Biomarkers
c) Direct Rapid Immunohistochemical Test for the Detection of Rabies
Antigen
d) Technological Advances Impacting Rabies Virus Research
Part 6: The Ecology and Epizootiology of Wildlife Rabies
Overview
25. The Impact of Raccoon Ecology on the Epizootiology of Raccoon Rabies
26. Fox Rabies
a) Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) and Rabies
b) Ecology of Rabies in the Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus)
27. Bat Rabies in Canada
28. Striped Skunks and Rabies: Ecology and Epizootioloogy
29. Recent Advances in the Epizootiology of Wildlife Rabies
30. Understanding Host Dynamics: Application of Molecular Ecology
Part 7: Prevention and Management of Rabies in Canada
Overview
31. Prevention and Management in Domestic Animals
32. Rabies and Practice in Public Health in Ontario
33. Communication Strategies
a) Federal Level
b) Provincial Level - Ontario
34. Costs of Rabies Management
Part 8: Special Interest Groups
Overview
35. Trapper Participation in Rabies Control in Canada
36. The First Nation People and Rabies
37. The Inuit and Rabies
Part 9: Contributions to Rabies Management
Overview
38. The Role of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Wildlife Services
(WS) in Wildlife Rabies Management
39. Assessing Canada’s Contribution to Rabies Management and Control