PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE 2007 HUNTER HARVESTED MOOSE HEALTH ASSESSMENT PROJECT

• Main Authors: Michelle Carstensen, Erika Butler, David Pauly, Mark Lenarz, Mike Schrage, Lou Cornicelli
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Alces alces
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.505.5163; http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/publications/wildlife/research2007/3_moose.pdf

The purpose of this project is to screen 2007-2009 hunter-harvested (and presumably healthy) moose (Alces alces) for a variety of disease agents. The results are intended to indicate what diseases the NE MN moose population is being exposed to as well as to provide some comparisons for similar testing completed with non-hunting moose mortalities from the same population. Positive results were reported for eastern equine encephalitis, West Nile Virus, malignant catarrhal fever, anaplasmosis, bovine viral diarrhea virus 1 and 2, Leptospira sp, and parainfluenza virus 3. A variety of fecal parasites were identified on fecal examination and multiple organisms were cultured from lung and liver samples. Histological examination was performed on all submitted tissues, with a variety of results. All results were negative for Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, brucellosis, bovine herpes virus 1, blue tongue virus, epizootic hemorrhagic disease, Neospora, chronic wasting disease, and bovine tuberculosis.