Contributions to the 12Th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA) August 27Th – 31St, 2016, Berlin
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12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA), Berlin 2016 Contributions to the 12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA) August 27th – 31st, 2016, Berlin, Germany Edited by Anke Schumann, Gudrun Wibbelt, Alex D. Greenwood, Heribert Hofer Organised by Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 17 10315 Berlin Germany www.izw-berlin.de and the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA) https://sites.google.com/site/ewdawebsite/ & ISBN 978-3-9815637-3-3 12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA), Berlin 2016 Published by Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17, 10315 Berlin (Friedrichsfelde) PO Box 700430, 10324 Berlin, Germany Supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [German Research Foundation] Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn, Germany Printed on Forest Stewardship Council certified paper All rights reserved, particularly those for translation into other languages. It is not permitted to reproduce any part of this book by photocopy, microfilm, internet or any other means without written permission of the IZW. 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PO Box 700430, 10324 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.izw-berlin.de 12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA), Berlin 2016 CONTENTS Foreword .................................................................................................................. 4 PLENARIES SMITH, WOUTRINA A Global One Health Approach to wildlife surveillance .................................................................... 6 WALZER, CHRIS Thinking beyond silos – implementing conservation medicine and One Health Approaches in a dynamic and uncertain environment, the Real World ...................................... 42 MARTINEAU, DANIEL Beluga whales of the St Lawrence River: life and death ............................................................... 70 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS .............................................. 6 CONTRIBUTED PAPERS FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS ......................................... 94 INDEXES First author index ................................................................................................... 214 Taxonomic index ................................................................................................... 216 Keyword index ..................................................................................................... 220 12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA), Berlin 2016 Foreword Dear colleagues, Welcome to the 12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA) jointly organised by the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA) and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Berlin. This meeting brings together wildlife specialists of different disciplines from 39 dif- ferent nations covering all continents to discuss and talk about “Wildlife health and conservation challenges in a changing world”. The selected main topics “Wildlife health – emerging diseases”, “Wildlife conservation & management”, “Causes and consequences of anthropogenic environmental changes” and a “Special focus: Neglected host species” are envisioned as a base for stimulating and creative dis- cussions and to pave the way for new ideas and international as well as interdisci- plinary collaborations. The conference is preceded by the EWDA Wildlife Health Surveillance Network Meeting followed by a number of workshops, which will hopefully already tune everybody into a productive and joyful atmosphere. More than 190 scientific con- tributions were submitted for the main conference and to allow enough time to all participants whose submission did not fit into the oral presentation schedule to pre- sent their work, the poster session got its own format as a Poster Party with bever- ages and light food on Sunday evening. Every day’s programme will start with a plenary talk to introduce the session topic, except for the excursion day on Tuesday when we will leave at lunch to the Spreeforest biosphere reserve located 1.5 hours south of Berlin – where also the EWDA Auction will take place. These proceedings contain in their first section the abstracts of oral presentations including the abstracts of invited plenary speakers, followed by the abstracts for poster presentations. Abstracts were printed as submitted. To help you to find abstracts of interest we have included an index of first authors, a taxonomic index, and an index of keywords at the end of the volume. We thank the Conference Scientific Committee for their help in the preparation of the conference and its scientific programme. We are very grateful to the organisers of the workshops and the session chairs as well as to all the colleagues who have kindly reviewed all submitted contributions. Berlin, August 2016 Gudrun Wibbelt, Anke Schumann, Steven Seet, Alex D. Greenwood, Heribert Hofer 4 Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) 12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA), Berlin 2016 EDWA 2016 Conference Scientific Committee: Erik Agren (Sweden) Carlo V. Citterio (Italy) Gábor A. Czirják (Germany) Károly Erdély (Hungary) Ursula Höfle (Spain) Oliver Krone (Germany) Karin Lemberger (France) Andrei D. Mihalca (Romania) Kristin Mühldorfer (Germany) Sophie Rossie (France) Marie-Pierre Ryser-Degiorgis (Switzerland) Claudia A. Szentiks (Germany) Gudrun Wibbelt (Germany) Lisa Yon (United Kingdom) Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) 5 12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA), Berlin 2016 CONTRIBUTED TALKS PLENARY TALK: A global One Health Approach to wildlife surveillance SMITH WOUTRINA University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, One Health Institute, 1089 Veterinary Medicine Dr, Davis CA 95616, USA; [email protected] With humans and animals moving around the world at unprecedented rates, new encounters and interactions with wildlife are providing opportunities for repeated spillover events and the emergence of potentially pandemic pathogens. For the past six years, the PREDICT Project of the US Emerging Pandemic Threats Program has been using a One Health approach to standardise surveillance for zoonotic viruses in key wildlife species where spillover events to humans and livestock are likely. Currently active in over 30 countries of Africa and Asia, a global network of wildlife professionals has come together for horizontal and vertical capacity strengthening activities that push field surveillance and laboratory activities closer to where the action is: the developing country settings. With a primary focus on primates, bats, and rodents, the One Health teams are working at key interfaces associated with land conversion, animal production systems, and animal value chain to conduct aligned surveillance in wildlife, livestock, and humans. In the past five years, the PREDICT consortium has sampled over 56,000 wild animals, detected more than 800 novel viruses, and trained over 2,500 people around the globe. Because the project has focused on viral emergence from wildlife in remote areas in some of the most resource-constrained countries, we have by necessity developed a more sustainable approach to viral discovery and diagnosis of mystery illnesses that we have implemented across broad socioeconomic contexts. Employing simultaneous multiple-genus and family level consensus PCR, we have been able to quickly and accurately identify novel viruses, previously undiagnosed as potential pathogens, for further characterisation. Combining cutting-edge surveillance techniques with practical implementation of integrated One Health approaches, the global health community has contributed significantly to inexpensive diagnostic improvements that can benefit wildlife, livestock, and humans, while also realising step-wise improvement in the global knowledge of wildlife virology and the health infrastructure that is essential for early detection and response to outbreaks. 6 Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) 12th Conference of the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA), Berlin 2016 Viruses in water: herpesviruses remain stable and infectious for up three weeks DAYARAM ANISHA1, FRANZ MATHIAS1, SCHATTSCHNEIDER ALEXANDER1, DAMIANI M ARMANDO2, BISCHOFBERGER SEBASTIAN2, OSTERRIEDER NIKOLAUS2, GREENWOOD ALEX D1 1Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Dept. of Wildlife Diseases, Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17, 10315 Berlin, GERMANY; [email protected] 2Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Virologie, Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 7-13, 14163 Berlin, GERMANY The stability of viruses in aquatic environments has been a contentious issue for many years. It is likely that there are many factors contributing to the persistence of viruses in water, however, these environmental conditions differ for each virus. Equine herpesvirus 1