ABSTRACT
As a result of increasing awareness and significant concern for public health, global efforts to investigate the rapidly growing numbers of emerging infectious diseases of humans have been ongoing for almost two decades. Equally concerning and oftentimes
4.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 73 4.1.1 Importance of Healthy Wildlife ......................................................... 75 4.1.2 Human Health ..................................................................................... 76 4.1.3 Agriculture and Domestic Animal Health ......................................... 76
4.2 Relevant Emerging/Resurgent Wildlife Diseases and Their Significance .....80 4.3 Vulnerability and Effects of Diseases on Wildlife Classes ............................86 4.4 Effects of Pesticides and Other Environmental Contaminants
on Susceptibility to Disease ............................................................................90 4.4.1 Nutrition and Systems Function ......................................................... 91 4.4.2 Neurotransmission and Behavior ........................................................93 4.4.3 Susceptibility to Disease Due to Suppressed Immunity.....................94
