One Health in action: Flea control and interpretative education at Badlands National Park
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Abstract
One Health involves interdisciplinary collaboration to improve, protect, and preserve the health of humans, wildlife, and ecosystems, and advocates for unified approaches to One Health challenges (Buttke et al. 2015). Here, we focus on a One Health challenge of nearly global distribution: Yersinia pestis, the flea-borne bacterial agent of plague. The bacterium poses a significant risk to humans and wildlife, causing social strife in some regions and transforming ecosystems (Eads and Biggins 2015). The conservation implications are profound in the western United States, where Y. pestis was first introduced in 1900. Considerable effort is devoted to plague mitigation, sometimes for human or wildlife health purposes separately. We present a synergy between plague mitigation for human and wildlife health.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | One Health in action: Flea control and interpretative education at Badlands National Park |
| Series title | Journal of Vector Ecology |
| DOI | 10.52707/1081-1710-47.2.227 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Society of Vector Ecology |
| Contributing office(s) | Fort Collins Science Center |
| Description | 3 p. |
| First page | 227 |
| Last page | 229 |
| Country | United States |
| State | South Dakota |
| Other Geospatial | Badlands National Park |
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