Program

Healthy wildlife, healthy people

Draft program for the 9^th conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association, Vlieland, the Netherlands, 13 - 16 September 2010

The main theme of the 2010 meeting will be how wildlife diseases affect human health. The program will make a real bridge between public health and wildlife health by involving public health representatives in the organisation, keynote lectures, and debates of this wildlife disease conference.

Proposed sessions: 

1. Trends in emerging diseases
2. Rodent-borne pathogens
3. Climate change and wildlife diseases
4. Control options for wildlife diseases of public health relevance
5. Focus on wildlife and human impact

Special features:

• Plenary debate between wildlife disease experts and public health representatives
• Updates on recent zoonotic disease problems of wildlife origin
• “Snappers”: short oral presentations of selected posters
• Workshops on tuberculosis, wildlife forensics, bat diseases, and rodent-borne viruses

For an overview of the program click here. For a detailed program click here.