Consumption of Big Game Remains by Scavengers: A Potential Risk as Regards Disease Transmission in Central Spain

Understanding the role that facultative scavenger species may play in spreading infectious pathogens, and even becoming reservoirs for humans, domestic and wild ungulates or, on the contrary, preventing the spread of disease, requires a prior understanding of the pattern of carrion scavenging in spe...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Carrasco-Garcia, Patricia Barroso, Javier Perez-Olivares, Vidal Montoro, Joaquín Vicente
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Veterinary Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fvets.2018.00004/full