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Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence - Workshop Summary
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Emerging Infectious Diseases in theAquatic-Marine Continuum
The following infectious diseases, described by workshop speaker Leslie Dierauf of the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center, are of considerable concern in freshwater, intertidal, and marine wildlife, due to recent increases in incidence and/or geographic range, as well their potential to disrupt aquatic and marine ecosystems.
Freshwater Zone
Ranavirus, within the family Iridoviridae, is a skin-destroying viral pathogen that infects North American amphibians (see Figure SA-9);
FIGURE SA-9Ranavirus-associated disease in frogs.
SOURCE: USGS; Dierauf (2007).
Viral hemorrhagic septicemia (Rhabdoviridae novirhabdovirus) is a newly discovered viral disease associated with large-scale mortality of many common fish species. The virus is able to survive in warm and cold waters and in estuarine and marine waters, as well as in freshwater systems (see Figure SA-10);
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