Biology 1001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Population Ecology, Ecological Relationship, Logistic Function
15 Mar 2015
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Usually spread by bites because the virus accumulates in the saliva of infected animals. Furious rabies: attack everything in their path. Paralytic rabies: suffer from increasing paralysis that progresses forward from hindlimbs. Fatal once an animal or a human shows clinical symptoms of the disease immunization should start as soon as possible after exposure. Red foxes main vector for rabies in ontario cows bitten by foxes farmers put their hands in cow mouths. Rabies transmitted to cows from foxes posed a threat to human lives and was a drain on the economy. Eradiation program in ontario after woman died: three phases. Developing a means of vaccinating foxes: put it in food and distributed over fields with foxes using low-flying aircraft. Monitoring the impact of the program on the fox population: biomarkers that stained the teeth of foxes who had eaten the bait. Interactions between organisms and their environment: abiotic & biotic components.
