About Disease Control
Preventing disease transmission between our domestic animal populations and our endangered Asiatic species is paramount when our villages border such a critical wildlife habitat.
Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) is one critical disease capable of jumping between domestic dogs and large carnivores. CDV is highly dangerous, and attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal and nervous systems of puppies and dogs. CDV is now capable not only of infecting our domestic canine friends, but also large cat species like the tigers that live in Bandipur. The threat is dire enough for the National Tiger Conservation Authority to warrant a country wide “Most Urgent Notification” to all tiger reserves.
MCT has also conducted a CDV vaccine drive in 150 villages within the two kilometers of the reserve, vaccinating over 1200 dogs total to date. Our ultimate goal is to procure a mobile veterinarian clinic that can travel into remote villages, staffed with a full-time veterinary doctor who can monitor and treat all diseases within the domestic animal populations near the Bandipur Tiger Reserve.
MCT has been able to carry out ABC programs using the funds earned through the sale and auction of Sunita Dhairyam’s wildlife paintings.
