Infection risk to wildlife populations and immune suppression induced by environmental chemicals

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We investigated about "disease for wildlife caused by environmental chemicals", in particular "immunosuppression" focusing on at the field level. We did our investigation in Republic of Zambia the major industry of the country is mining activity. From our results, we found that due to mining activity, the inflammatory cytokines levels and oxidative stress marker levels in domestic cattle and wild rodents were consider affected by heavy metals exposure. Furthermore, we analyze the correlation between GIS heavy metal concentration data and immune disruption. The results indicated that we couldn't found any correlations among immune disruption, heavy metal concentration in soil, and MT expression levels. Our results suggested that other strong factors such as feeding habitat, infection are affected to the correlation.