{"id":25857,"date":"2010-08-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/18\/parasite-threatens-many-of-bri\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:00:00","slug":"parasite-threatens-many-of-bri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/parasite-threatens-many-of-bri\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasite threatens many of Britain’s best-loved birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emerging infectious diseases do not only affect humans. Wildlife is threatened as well, and an alarming report from Britain documents an avian tragedy of great proportions.
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\n\"ResearchBlogging.org\"<\/a><\/span>Emerging protozoan caused diseases are seriously affecting British populations of Carduelis chloris<\/em>, the greenfinch, and and chaffinch Fringilla coelebs<\/em>, a chaffinch, two of Britian’s most common birds.<\/p>\n

The offending organism is a new and fatal disease first found in Britain’s finches in 2005, Trichomonas gallinae<\/em>. Within two years of its appearance, greenfinch breeding populations ad decreased by 35%, and chaffinch populations by 21%. That totals to something like 500,000 birds or more. Bird die offs occur for a lot of reasons, but the study at hand compares regions where Trichomonas gallinae<\/em> is not seen, or is seen in only low levels, and this sort of decline is not seen there.<\/p>\n

The paper, Emerging Infectious Disease Leads to Rapid Population Declines of Common British Birds<\/em> should be available at this link<\/a> for you to read.<\/p>\n

Robinson, Robert, Lawson, Becki, Toms, Mike, Peck, Kirsi, Kirckwood,James, Chantrye, Julian, Clatworthy, Innes, Evans, Andy, Hughes, Laura, Hutchinson, Oliver, John, Shinto, Pennycot, Tom, Perkins, Matthew, Rowle, Peter, Simpson, Vic, Tyler, Kevin, & Cunningham, Andrew (2010). Emerging Infectious Disease Leads to Rapid Population Declines of Common British Birds
\n PLoS ONE, 5<\/span> (8)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emerging infectious diseases do not only affect humans. Wildlife is threatened as well, and an alarming report from Britain documents an avian tragedy of great proportions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1247,27],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6J3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}