ia the diseases under which tigers suffer can say today one relatively low. Although we know above tiger today considerably more than still 50 years ago, there is only low information on this subject. Above all in the case of information about wild tigers, it looks very meager. In spite of its, I would like to begin wild tiger with some information over those. These finding were compiled in the last decades and may can for they in the sand and wholes for reliable they are held.

I would like beginning with a virus infection which strikes members of the family though rarely Felidae but results in a serious illness process. The speech is from rabies (Lyssa). Many ones want to hold this illness dangerous for not further but the process of rabies is fatal without processing in 99% of all cases. In the case of tiger and the other Felidae, those perform identical vaccines like with the human being and this might immediately also be given.

The above representation shows a photo enlarged strongly the rabies viruses. The rabies occurs next to animals in two appearances with which the animal is either very stimulated or apathetical and paralyzed. The first form runs similar to the human being and with the human being. In the excitement stage, the animal attempts to bite every living being who comes into width for him. If one considers the strength of a tiger, one in the case of such symptoms should not proceed onto own fist. In the case of the rarer second form, the excitement stage is only very short or she is completely missing; instead of this, the paralys already insert in an early stage, first in pines and larynx.

The rabies already becomes in medical writings time around 300 A.C. mentions one however as she will transmit recognized only 1804. developed in 1884 the French bacteriologist pimp paste ur a vaccine for prevention against rabies. In varied form, Pasteurs means is employed up to now; she resulted in animals/people dying very a great deal less of rabies as earlier. The modern therapy next to animals with rabies suspicion looks as: The wound is first cleaned as fast as possible and thoroughly (if need be with water and soap). Subsequent receives the affected one on the bite place and other body places injections of rabies-hyperimmunserum. Daily injections of the rabies vaccine then follow 14 to 30 days long; moreover, two further revitalization inoculations are given at intervals of in each case ten days. The traditional vaccine contains killed viruses which are bred in chicken eggs. A newer vaccine consists of exciters which come from human lab cell cultures; this vaccine is more harmless and it is lesser required by injections.

Over other disease there are only individual proofments. It opens from the fact no sense to count all these occurrences separately, therefore have on I me an enumeration in table forum decided. I then deal in more detail with certain special features at the end.

This table is of course only a relatively coarse enumeration of the illnesses next to tigers. Since the exploration, as mentioned already, has not yet penetrated into this matter very deep, can I to say the wildly existing tiger not much more. I can still tax only a couple of space commonplaces.

In such a way, it is confessed of lions from South Africa that they suffer strongly from tuberculosis. This illness was also found on tigers yet appears considerably better the tiger with this illnesses ready to solidify for than that more African lion. As is confessed caused the tuberculosis through the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a illness of the lungs. A calcify of the alveoluses is the result of this illness.

The first particular tuberculosis medicine became in 1944 available when the American micro biologist Selman Abraham Waksman detected the antibiotic Streptomycin. This achievement followed in 1948 the evolution of PA (Para-Aminosalicylsaeure) and late from Isoniazid and other drugs which revolutionized tuberculosis processing (see antibiotics).

From the zoological gardens are also available me amazing manner no epoch-making finding. The tiger is free from existing tigers for sensitive about the same illnesses as well as those. However, a couple of phenomena are still added which one has not yet found in nature.

Among other things, this is pneumonia. A comprehensive term is pneumonia for more than 50 ways of pneumonia. Rock mountains fever (Rickettsia rickettsii) also falls under this category - this illness also occurs in the free hunting ground yet not in heaviness as this occurs in zoos. Pneumonia are a very complex topic with which I would not like to however deal here further. But I would like to still mention the so-called cat cold complex.

Cat cold is one clinically heavily to infectious diseases of the nose throat room to be separated from each other next to cats. In the case of complications, pneumonia (pneumonias) can occur. Different viruses (herpes-, Calici-, Picorna-, Reo-, Parainfluenzaviren as well as Chlamydien and Mycoplasmen) can release as a mono and/or mixed infection the cat cold complex. A therapy is only symptomatically possible, in bigger animal supplies, there are often epidemic outbreaks involving heavy losses (endemias). Therapy consists in supporting antibiotic gifts over a longer period in order to oppose dangerous second infections. Since the upper airways are very sensible through the inflammation, a sufficient humidity must pay attention by more than 80 percent.

An increasingly more crucial problem occurring at newer time is the so-called cat AIDS. As with the human being, this illness is caused by a mutante of the HI-viruses and has next to cats, therefore also tigers, the same effects as with people, monkeys and other mammals. Tigers suffering from HIV die often through tuberculosis or easier, otherwise harmless, infections.

To parasites like worms and ticks, malleus, blowing illnesses, are to be mentioned still. These will suffer caused next to the tigers mostly through bacteria and Malleomyces mallei. Furthermore, pasteurellosis and paratyphoid to mention are of evaluation still One brings Pasteurellosis with poultry cholera in touch while paratyphoid salmonellas represent a food poisoning. These problems was as said not in free nature but only in zoological gardens observed. Other parasites as Trichinella spiralis (trichina goes through intestine, however, bloodstream and lymph system), should not now find further mention.

Of which other causes do tigers also die? Now, this question can be answered simply. It spends only a basis actual from that an otherwise healthy tiger would be able die - hunger. In cold winters or into fields, the red deer exterminated in which and/or strongly decimated was, can also find a tiger no more sufficiently food. At every hour without hunt success, the chances might sink to make booty. If a tiger makes no booty, he becomes weaker and weaker and die then at worst to exhaustion.

It can also happen in extremely cold winters that a tiger freezes to death. However, this occurs very rarely since the tiger is well nevertheless equipped for great minus temperatures. Frostbite does occur in warmer living spaces, like India, of course not. The only basis for an early tiger death can be actual only a injury here which the hunt influences negatively strongly. Regarded by other reasons, like the hunting through the human being. A tiger accosts circle of friends linguistic nothing so rapid around, he is yet of many living beings that can not defend directly themselves against attacks of microorganisms only one also.

Too big cats and the tiger earned that everything is done in order to avoid an illness or the one already available illness with all possible averages handled is. This is no luxury but the right of every living being - we have to which respect as a way of life of the plane one most civilized putative.

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