Professor UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine Winters, California, United States
Disclosure(s):
Brian Bird, DVM, ScM, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose
This session will discuss insights into how environmental restoration activities can impacts potential zoonotic and livestock disease transmission routes for viral and parasitic pathogens in high-mountain meadow grazaing ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California including meadow stream restoration activities, beaver dam analogues impact on pathogen flow in streams, and wildfire impacts.
Learning Objectives:
Become familiar with the impacts of wet meadow restoration activities on habitat restoration in high-mountain valleys in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Describe the impacts of beaver dam analogues as potential filters of parasite oocysts to improve mountain meadow stream water quality and potentially reduce disease transmission to livestock and other animals.
Understand the impacts of wildfire events on rodent populations and the potential for increased transmission of zoonotic viruses (hantaviruses) to humans and other animals during the first two years post-fire.
