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National Wildlife Health Center Newsletter March 2019

National Wildlife Health Center Newsletter March 2019

Updates on disease surveillance, vaccine development, African Swine Fever, white-nose syndrome, modeling causes of mortality, chronic wasting disease...

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A Unified Research Strategy for Disease Management

A Unified Research Strategy for Disease Management

As wildlife diseases increase globally, an understanding of host-pathogen relationships can elucidate avenues for management and improve conservation...

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National Wildlife Health Center Newsletter September 2018

National Wildlife Health Center Newsletter September 2018

Newsletter from the National Wildlife Health Center in September 2018. Updates on avian influenza, amphibian diseases, chronic wasting disease...

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New Approach May Detect Chronic Wasting Disease Earlier, at Less Cost

New Approach May Detect Chronic Wasting Disease Earlier, at Less Cost

A new statistical approach to disease surveillance may improve scientists’ and managers’ ability to detect chronic wasting disease earlier in white...

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Simple Ways to Avoid Public Exposures to Infectious Wildlife Diseases Summarized

Simple Ways to Avoid Public Exposures to Infectious Wildlife Diseases Summarized

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and other disease specialists, have published...

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National Wildlife Health Center Newsletter April 2018

National Wildlife Health Center Newsletter April 2018

Newsletter from the National Wildlife Health Center in April 2018. Updates on chronic wasting disease, avian influenza, amphibian and reptile diseases...

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New Control Methods Can Help Protect Coral Reefs from Invasive Species

New Control Methods Can Help Protect Coral Reefs from Invasive Species

Honolulu, Hawaii – Control efforts such as the removal of shipwrecks and application of chlorine may help mitigate the damaging effects of...

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New Information on Bat Fungus Improves Detection of Deadly Disease

New Information on Bat Fungus Improves Detection of Deadly Disease

The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease of hibernating bats, spreads rapidly by way of...

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Taking the Bait: Majority of Prairie Dogs Are Consuming Plague Vaccine

Taking the Bait: Majority of Prairie Dogs Are Consuming Plague Vaccine

About 70 percent of wild prairie dogs successfully ingested baits containing an oral sylvatic plague vaccine, or SPV, that were distributed throughout...

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EarthWord–Zoonotic

EarthWord–Zoonotic

Sharing isn’t always polite, judging by this EarthWord. 

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Avian Flu From Abroad Can Spread in North American Poultry, Wild Birds

Avian Flu From Abroad Can Spread in North American Poultry, Wild Birds

Some avian influenza, or bird flu, viruses that are able to enter North America from other continents through migrating birds can be deadly to poultry...

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Emerging Disease Further Jeopardizes North American Frogs

Emerging Disease Further Jeopardizes North American Frogs

A deadly amphibian disease called severe Perkinsea infections, or SPI, is the cause of many large-scale frog die-offs in the United States, according...

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