Disease Surveillance
Disease Surveillance
USGS National Wildlife Health Center scientists conduct disease surveillance in collaboration with multiple partners to provide early detection and warning of biological threats, situational awareness, and management of emerging diseases.
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The National Wildlife Disease Database
The National Wildlife Disease Database (NWDD) is a congressionally funded USGS tool that integrates multi-jurisdictional wildlife disease data with advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to provide situational awareness, detect unusual disease events, and support early warning and data-driven decision-making.
Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) Surveillance
Scientists of the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) in collaboration with partners have developed risk assessments for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans ( Bsal ) in the United States and are sampling high-risk locations for the fungus.
The National Wildlife Disease Database: Partner with Us to Protect Wildlife, Agriculture, Pet, and Human Health
The National Wildlife Disease Database (NWDD) system applies advanced analytics to integrated data from government agencies, wildlife rehabilitators, and open sources, to identify unusual disease events, assess impacts, and map disease occurrences nationwide. Natural resource managers, agricultural communities, veterinary professionals, and human health practitioners rely on this data to...
Avian Influenza Surveillance
The USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) conducts surveillance in wild birds to facilitate early detection and situational awareness for high consequence pathogens, including highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses.
WHISPers
WHISPers, the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - event reporting system, is a web-based repository of basic information on current and historic wildlife mortality (death) and/or morbidity (illness) events reported by partners nationwide. It is also the portal to request diagnostic and epidemiologic services from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center.
International Reporting of Wildlife Diseases of Interest
Reporting of wildlife diseases is important to build situational awareness regarding wildlife health, build national and global knowledge capacity, increase coordination among agencies, and integrate wildlife health data into other surveillance frameworks .
White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance
The USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) assists State, Federal, and Tribal wildlife agencies nationwide with early detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans ( Pd), and addresses specific research priorities identified by partners in conjunction with the White-Nose Syndrome National Plan.