Wildlife disease - reviews, case studies and health assessments -- Health of Antarctic Wildlife: An Introduction -- Risk of Marine Mammal Die-Offs in the Southern Ocean -- Diseases of Antarctic Seabirds -- Diseases and Parasites of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Seals -- Infectious Bursal Disease Virus and Antarctic Birds -- An Unusual Mortality Event Among Adélie Penguins in the Vicinity of Mawson Station, Antarctica -- Investigation of the 1998 Mass Mortality Event in New Zealand Sea Lions -- Health Assessment of Weddell Seals, Leptonychotes weddellii, in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica -- Health Assessment and Diseases of the Weddell seal, Leptonochotes weddelli, in Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica -- Health Assessment of the Leopard Seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, in Prydz Bay, Eastern Antarctica and NSW, Australia -- External factors - environmental, administrative and legal -- Antarctic Climate, Weather and the Health of Antarctic Wildlife -- National Antarctic Programs and Their Impact on the Environment -- Antarctic Tourism: An Operator's Perspective -- Human-Mediated Impacts on the Health of Antarctic Wildlife -- Measuring Stress in Antarctic Seals -- Sewage Disposal and Wildlife Health in Antarctica -- The International Legal Framework for Protecting the Health of Antarctic Wildlife -- The Antarctic Treaty System and Wildlife Health: Disease Awareness, Prevention and Response. This book provides a broad assessment of the health of Antarctica's birds and seals. It is set against the background of available scientific and environmental information and the political and administrative processes in place. 17 chapters are presented in two parts: Wildlife Disease consists of reviews, case studies and health assessments. External Factors covers the environmental, administrative and legal aspects. The term health is used in its widest sense to encompass the normal state and those factors which detract from it including both infectious and non-infectious causes. A must for veterinary and biological scientists, policy makers and administrators whose job it is to protect Antarctica's wildlife against the introduction or spread of diseases by human activities.