WHISPers

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.

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...

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.