Friends of Arcata Marsh Resumes Monthly Lectures Via Zoom on Friday

This is a press release from Friends of Arcata Marsh:

Because the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center is closed to visitors, monthly lectures sponsored by Friends of the Arcata Marsh (FOAM) will resume via Zoom. Tune in at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 17 for a presentation by Humboldt State wildlife professor and FOAM Board member Rick Brown. Rick’s specialty is wildlife diseases — including those that are tick-borne (e.g., Lyme disease) – as well as parasites of local carnivores such as fishers and martens.

His lecture will start with the “One-World-One-Health” Paradigm and end with descriptions of some dramatic effects of fun, local wildlife diseases like “newt-licking” garter snakes, flukes that cause extra limb formation in frogs, hairloss syndrome in deer, and giant kidney worms in otters.

“The paradigm is an integration of environmental health, veterinary health, and human health. Historically, each of these fields has been studied and managed separately, but the obvious overlap suggests that a more holistic approach will benefit these and related fields,” states Brown.

Zoonotic diseases (those shared between humans and nonhuman animals) include notorious pathogens that cause rabies, bubonic plague, Lyme disease, and many others. “We can’t understand transmission risks without considering issues related to humans, nonhuman animals, and the environments in which they live.”

Join the Zoom Meeting https://humboldtstate.zoom.us/j/97977673912

 

Meeting ID: 979 7767 3912

Find your local number: https://humboldtstate.zoom.us/u/adXwt6fXmF

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