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Salmonella Infections and Backyard Poultry

Educational Materials Healthy Pets, Healthy People: Stay Healthy Around Pets - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Keeping Backyard Chickens and Other Poultry - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthy Pets, Healthy People: Healthy Families and Flocks - Centers for Disease Control a...
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Zoonotic Diseases

"Zoonotic diseases (also known as zoonoses) are caused by germs that spread between animals and people.
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Q Fever

Q Fever Fast Facts - Center for Food Security & Public Health, Iowa State University Q Fever Fact Sheet - National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) Prevention and Control of Coxiella burnetii Infection Among Humans and Animals - Guidance for a Coordinated Public Health a...
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Animal Contact in Public Settings

Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings (2017) - Public Veterinary Health Petting Zoo Best Practices Checklist - Minnesota Department of Health, Zoonotic Diseases Unit Reducing the Risk of Animal-to-Human Disease Transmission at Fairs, Achievement Days, a...
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Public Health

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Wood decay fungi guide

Wood decay guide: a resource for non-specialists. A wide variety of fungi occur on, and in trees, and interact with trees in various ways.
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Simple tree demographics

Simple demographic spreadsheet Linked below is a simple demographic spreadsheet in excel format. The spreadsheet is intended to enable a practicing arborist or urban tree manager to track their tree population over time. Instructions are included in the top row of the spreadsheet.
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