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Disease Investigation Services

Learn about National Wildlife Health Center diagnostic and epidemiological services and access all required forms and instructions.

The entire wildlife disease and mortality investigatory process begins with the astute field biologist. Wildlife mortality events need to be discovered before they can be investigated; therefore, the local biologist forms a team with NWHC epidemiologists, pathologists, and laboratory diagnosticians in order to work in concert to successfully carry out a wildlife disease investigation.

Report mortality events and submit specimens

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NDV Study in cormorants

Epidemiological Services

Professionals at the NWHC include wildlife biologists, veterinarians, statisticians, epidemiologists, and informatics specialists. This multidisciplinary group conducts investigations and disease ecology studies of emerging and recurring priority wildlife diseases, maintains and analyzes comprehensive information on wildlife disease events, and provides response and management consultation and...
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center
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Epidemiological Services

Professionals at the NWHC include wildlife biologists, veterinarians, statisticians, epidemiologists, and informatics specialists. This multidisciplinary group conducts investigations and disease ecology studies of emerging and recurring priority wildlife diseases, maintains and analyzes comprehensive information on wildlife disease events, and provides response and management consultation and...
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NWHC Necropsy

Report Mortality Events and Submit Specimens

Instructions for reporting wildlife morbidity/mortality and submitting specimens to the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC).
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center, Laboratories for Wildlife Disease Diagnostics
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Report Mortality Events and Submit Specimens

Instructions for reporting wildlife morbidity/mortality and submitting specimens to the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC).
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WHISPers

WHISPers, the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - event reporting system, is a partner-driven, web-based repository for sharing basic information about historic and ongoing wildlife mortality (death) and/or morbidity (illness) events. The information, such as county-level locations, onset and ending dates, species affected, and diagnosis has generously been shared with the USGS...
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center
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WHISPers

WHISPers, the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - event reporting system, is a partner-driven, web-based repository for sharing basic information about historic and ongoing wildlife mortality (death) and/or morbidity (illness) events. The information, such as county-level locations, onset and ending dates, species affected, and diagnosis has generously been shared with the USGS...
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Swabs for Extraction

Diagnostic Services

The USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) conducts laboratory investigations to determine the causes of wildlife mortality events, especially large-scale die-offs or those that are otherwise unusual.
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center
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Diagnostic Services

The USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) conducts laboratory investigations to determine the causes of wildlife mortality events, especially large-scale die-offs or those that are otherwise unusual.
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A moist swab is passed over the surface of the forearm and muzzle of each bat.

Surveillance and Special Project Forms and Instructions

Access forms and instructions for surveillance projects and other ongoing special projects.
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Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center
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Surveillance and Special Project Forms and Instructions

Access forms and instructions for surveillance projects and other ongoing special projects.
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