Wildlife and Disease in India
Contents: Foreword. I. General section: 1. Role of wildlife in parasitic diseases of man and animal/M.B. Chabra and Satyavir Singh. 2. Wildlife health management in India/B.P. Joshi. 3. Insects and disease relationship in man and wildlife/Prabhu N. Saxena. 4. Wildlife diseases of vertebrates of Himalayan regions/Anand Kumar Sinha. 5. Importance of wildlife disease and their control/L.N. Acharjye. 6. Vector ticks of the Kumaon and Garhwal Himalaya/B.D. Sharma. 7. Ticks and wildlife zoonoses/B.D. Sharma. 8. Sheep borne zoonoses and their arthropods vectors/B.D. Sharma. 9. Etiology of parasitic diseases in Garhwal Himalayas/Sandeep K. Malhotra. 10. Wildlife disease relationship/B.D. Sharma. II. Specific disease section: 11. Parasitic infections of fish/R.R. Momin and D.K. Pethkar. 12. Pheasant diseases in India: an overview/R. Somvanshi and C.M. Singh. 13. Parasites of reptiles/R.R. Momin and C.M. Pethkar. 14. Mortalities in the Central Himalaya Musk deer farm in Chamoli district in India/B.P. Joshi and S. Mehrotra. 15. In search of Filarial infection in Indian jungle crow corvus macrorhynchos/R.K. Chatterjee and Shailja Misra. 16. A checklist of recommended treatments for diseases of waterfowl and game birds/B.D. Sharma.
The idea behind writing of this book is neither to crate a phobia regarding the various parasitic diseases which can be transmitted to man and animal from wildlife not to lower the value of wildlife to man. The values of wildlife are numerous such as commercial recreational biotic scientific environmental educational emotional and aesthetic. But at the same time there are a few negative values also namely damage to crops trees seedling and other property or occasionally injury or death to livestock and man from their attack. Additionally are certain diseases which can take shape of epizootics and are transmissible to man or his domestic stock. Wild animals may act as a source of disease of agents or reservoirs of certain parasites communicable to man and livestock.
The subject of wildlife and diseases ecology is most fascinating area of research which constitutes a second integral base for the conservation of wildlife and human resources. (jacket)
