William is a 20 yr old male raised in New York City and pursuing a Biology major

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William is a 20 yr old male raised in New York City and pursuing a Biology major in hopes to enter a Veterinary Science program next fall. Also in prep for his future career, he applied for a summ internship w ervices. Having been a city kid all of his life, William was thrilled that he would be working in the New Me introduced to an area where the years ith the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program through the U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife xico dessert to assist with data collection of the Mexican wolf populations that were being re- y were once top predators, but had been absent from for the last 10 William learned his duties quickly and took on extra tasks so that he could make the most of hi summer experience. On July 5th, the biological station was short-staffed so William volunteered to one of the study areas by himself. His supervisor had great confidence in William's knowledge check and abilities, so he approved William's minutes with the biological station operator. plan and required him to maintain radio contact every 15 Wil liam drove his Jeep out to the study area he was assigned, tracking signals from the wolves' radio collars so that he could try to observe them and look for signs of new pups in the pack. He tracked a signal from a young female that he knew was ready to deliver pups any day, but as he listened, he realized that she wasn't moving. He feared she was in distress, so he parked as nea her den without scaring them, then hiked towards her signal for about 10 minutes before he saw her laying on the ground lifeless. She had 2 newborn pups next to her who were crying out and trying to suckle unsuccessfully r as he could to He made a split second decision to rescue the young pups. They appeared to be just about a day old Aside from starving, they were also in respiratory distress (labored breathing); they were sneezing and even coughing up some bloody sputum. He carefully observed the mother wolf, making sure not to disturb her - he knew the program's veterinarian would want to come back out to collect her remains for autopsy and that he shouldn't disturb the the mother had severe swelling in many of her lymph nodes and that these were darkened and appeared necrotic. He could also see that she was heavily infested with fleas, and so were the pups He also noted the carcasses of several black-footed prairie dogs in the den; these were a favorite prey of the wolves and they were extremely abundant in the desert. scene any more than necessary. He noted that pups to take them back to the base for emergency treatment and went back to William collected the pups to take them back to the base for emergency treatmen his Jeep. He radioed the station operator and explained the situation. The station operator told him to come back immediately for emergency treatment for himself as well as the pups. She told him to remain at the gate and await emergency decontamination before he (and the pups) could be to an isolated medical ward for treatment moved

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1. The top five suspects are listed below :

Wolves are carriers of infectious diseases like anthrax, brucella. Since, they are mobile predators and feed on the carcasses of dead herbivores ( carriers of anthrax and brucellosis), they travel miles to spread the disease.

Wolf is a carrier of rabies virus which also infects man when a person gets infected with this carrier wolf.

Wolf can get infected with various parasites, of which echinococcia and cysticercocci are most dangerous. Both of these can also infect man. When wolf feed on hooved animals, they come in contact with parasites of tapeworm and thereby becomes infected with the disease.

Bacteria from Brucella genus are coccobacilli. Since, in the sputum of gram stain and sputum acid fast stain, coccobacilli can be visible, the victim has Brucellosis.

Results of tests :

F1 antibody : High titers of IgG and IgA for long period causing strong agglutination is an indication of the disease.

X ray : It reveals changes in bones and joints.

CBC count : Leukocytosis is rare in Brucellosis. Patient neutropenic.

DISEASES PATHOGEN Echinococcosis Echinococcus sp. Cysticercosis Taenia solium Rabies Rabies virus Anthrax Bacillus anthracis Brucellosis Brucella sp.

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