The risk of tick-borne diseases in the wildlife damage control

Abstract

 To evaluate infection risk to wildlife managers, we conducted surveys on the incidence of spotted fever, eruptive fever, trombiculiasis, tularemia, and severe fever associated with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus. The target wildlife manager consisted of 24 hunters and 13 non-hunters. Our tests indicated that 6 of 37 wildlife managers had positive antibodies to spotted fever and 6 other managers had antibodies to trombiculiasis. One tularemia positive individual was confirmed in the hunter group. The antibody-positive to these tick borne diseases existed regardless of being a hunter or a non-hunter.