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By National Wildlife Health Center
January 1, 2021
Wildlife Health Bulletins are distributed to natural resource/conservation agencies to provide and promote information exchange about significant wildlife health threats.
If you would like to be added to or removed from the mailing list for these bulletins, email nwhcoutreachdb@usgs.gov.
Recent Bulletins
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Status and Response to Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in North America - January 2022
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Winter 2021/2022 Bat Submission Guidelines and Highlights of the 2020/2021 White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - January 2022
- Detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in an Exhibition Farm in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada - December 2021
- Winter 2021 Update on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses Circulating Globally in Wild Birds - December 2021
- SARS-CoV-2 and North American Wildlife - December 2021
- African Swine Fever Detected in Dominican Republic - September 2021
- Winter 2020 Update on HPAI Viruses Circulating Globally in Wild Birds - December 2020
- An Update on NWHC Support to Wildlife Managers and Response to RHDV2 - August 2020
- Continued Expansion of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 in North America and Additional Instructions Regarding Mortality Event Investigations - May 2020
- Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 Confirmed in Wild Rabbits in the United States - April 2020
- NWHC Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Information About Coronaviruses in Wildlife - April 2020
- Widespread Avian Paramyxovirus-1 in Eurasian Collared Doves in the North Central US - February 2020
Bulletins by Topic
White-Nose Syndrome
- Winter 2021/2022 Bat Submission Guidelines and Highlights of the 2020/2021 White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - January 2022
- Winter 2019/2020 Bat Submission Guidelines and Highlights from the 2018/2019 White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - January 2020
- Winter 2018/2019 Bat Submission Guidelines and Updates from the 2017/2018 White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - November 2018
- Winter 2017/2018 Bat Submission Guidelines and Highlights from the 2016/2017 White-nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - January 2018
- Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Investigations and Update on Surveillance for Pseudogymnoascus destructans - December 2016
- White-Nose Syndrome Updates for the 2015/2016 Surveillance Season - July 2016
- White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Washington State - April 2016
- Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Investigations in 2016 and Update on Surveillance for Pseudogymnoascus destructans - February 2016
- Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance and Early Detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans - March 2015
- White-Nose Syndrome Updates for the 2013/2014 Surveillance Season - August 2014
- Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance - January 2014
- White-Nose Syndrome Updates - August 2013
- WNS Winter Submission Guidelines - January 2013
- White-Nose Syndrome Updates - January 2012
- Universal precautions for the management of bat white-nose syndrome - September 2011
- White-nose syndrome discovered in Kentucky, new counties in Maryland and West Virginia, and Nova Scotia - May 2011
- White-nose syndrome discovered in Ohio, new county in Maryland, and New Brunswick - April 2011
- Indiana and North Carolina: White-nose syndrome in bats confirmed - February 2011
- Revised Case Definitions for White-Nose Syndrome and Winter 2010/2011 Bat Submission Guidelines - February 2011
- White-Nose Syndrome - Geomyces destructans detected in Oklahoma Cave Myotis and Listed Missouri Gray Bats - May 2010
- White-Nose Syndrome - New Locations in Missouri, Tennessee and Quebec - April 2010
- White-Nose Syndrome - New Locations in Canada, Maryland and Tennessee Confirmed - March 2010
- Update on WNS - Tennessee Finding - Feburary 2010
- Update on WNS Information - December 2009
- Wildlife Disease Updates: White-Nose Syndrome, Avian Influenza Surveillance, Bat Rabies and other NWHC Updates - August 2009
- Description of Fungus Associated with White-Nose Syndrome - November 2008
- White-Nose Syndrome in Bats in the Northeastern U.S. - April 2008
Avian Influenza
- Status and Response to Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in North America - January 2022
- Detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in an Exhibition Farm in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada - December 2021
- Winter 2021 Update on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses Circulating Globally in Wild Birds - December 2021
- Winter 2020 Update on HPAI Viruses Circulating Globally in Wild Birds - December 2020
- Update on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds - December 2017
- Update on H5N8 and other H5 HPAI viruses in Wild Birds - December 2016
- Detection of EA/AM H5N2 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a Mallard from Alaska - August 2016
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Update: National Surveillance and Recent Wild Bird Detections - July 2015
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Found in the Central United States - March 2015
- Detection of Novel Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds - January 2015
- Detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses H5N2 and H5N8 in Wild Birds of the United States - December 2014
- Avian Influenza A (H7N9) in China - May 2013
- NWHC Plan for Avian Influenza Surveillance of Wild Birds - May 2012
- Low-path Avian Flu H5 and N1 Found in Michigan and Ohio, and Confirmation on Results from Illinois and Montana October 2006
- Low-path Avian Flu H5 and N1 Found in Northern Pintails in Montana September 2006
- Low-path Avian Flu H5N1 Found in Mallards in Pennsylvania - September 2006
- Low-path Avian Flu H5N1 Found in Mallards in Maryland - September 2006
- Avian Influenza H5N1 Reported in Michigan Likely Low Path Strain - August 2006
- Wild bird mortality reporting - June 2006
- Some basic flu facts regarding the ABC Movie "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" - May 2006
- Interim Guidelines for the Protection of Persons Handling Wild Birds With Reference to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 - August 2005 - Updated January 2007
- Update on Avian Influenza in Wildlife - July 2005
- Avian Influenza in Wild Birds - 2004
West Nile Virus
- West Nile Virus Causes Bald Eagle and Eared Grebe Mortality in Utah - January 2014
- West Nile Virus in Greater Sage-Grouse - November 2006
- West Nile Disease Continues to Move West - August 2002
- Wild Birds Implicated in Rapid Spread of West Nile Virus - 2001
- Update on West Nile Virus - October 2000
- Update on West Nile Virus - September 2000
- Update on West Nile Virus - March 2000
Assorted Wildlife Disease Issues
- SARS-CoV-2 and North American Wildlife - December 2021
- African Swine Fever Detected in Dominican Republic - September 2021
- An Update on NWHC Support to Wildlife Managers and Response to RHDV2 - August 2020
- Continued Expansion of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 in North America and Additional Instructions Regarding Mortality Event Investigations - May 2020
- Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 Confirmed in Wild Rabbits in the United States - April 2020
- NWHC Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Information About Coronaviruses in Wildlife - April 2020
- Widespread Avian Paramyxovirus-1 in Eurasian Collared Doves in the North Central US - February 2020
- Range expansion of Haemaphysalis longicornis (Asian longhorned tick) in the United States: Information for identification and surveillance - May 2019
- Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease virus 2 Confirmed in a Domestic Rabbit in the United States - October 2018
- Update: Avian Paramyxovirus-1 in Double-Crested Cormorants and Eurasian Collared Doves - September 2018
- Avian Paramyxovirus-1 in Double-Crested Cormorants and Eurasian Collared Doves - August 2018
- Haemaphysalis longicornis Detected in the United States - June 2018
- Avian Cholera Mortality Events in the Mississippi and Pacific Flyways During 2018 - February 2018
- Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus in Double-Crested Cormorants - August 2016
- Bsal: An Emerging Disease of Salamanders - April 2016
- Large-Scale Mortality of Common Murres in Alaska - January 2016
- The Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership – event reporting system - May 2015
- USGS National Wildlife Health Center Reorganization and Update on Disease Investigation Services - July 2014
- Avian Cholera in Alaskan Seabirds - December 2013
- Sea Star Mortality on the West Coast - December 2013
- USGS National Wildlife Health Center Wildlife Diagnostic Services - September 2013
- Snake Fungal Disease in the United States - April 2013
- Cyanobacterial Disease Killing Coral on Kauai, Hawaii - December 2012
- Updates from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center - November 2012
- Hemorrhagic Disease in Wild Ruminants - September 2012
- Update on Schmallenberg Virus in Europe - July 2012
- Update on Ranavirus in Amphibians and Reptiles - March 2012
- Summary of 2010 Newcastle Disease virus outbreaks in wild birds in upper Midwest and the Northeast - December 2010
- Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus Found in Double-Crested Cormorants - September 2010
- Puffer Fish Die-off in Hawaii - August 2010
- Avian Salmonellosis in Wild Birds - April 2009
- Virulent Newcastle Disease Confirmed in Minnesota - September 2008
- Exotic Parasite of American Coot Discovered in Exotic Snail in Lake Onalaska - July 2007
- CWD found in both free-ranging and captive deer in New York - May 2005
- Hantavirus Prevention Measures - 2004
- Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy in Wild Birds - 2004
- Foot and Mouth Disease in Europe - 2001
- Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy (AVM) Re-Emerging in 2000 - 2000
Wildlife Health Bulletins are distributed to natural resource/conservation agencies to provide and promote information exchange about significant wildlife health threats.
If you would like to be added to or removed from the mailing list for these bulletins, email nwhcoutreachdb@usgs.gov.
Recent Bulletins
-
Status and Response to Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in North America - January 2022
-
Winter 2021/2022 Bat Submission Guidelines and Highlights of the 2020/2021 White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - January 2022
- Detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in an Exhibition Farm in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada - December 2021
- Winter 2021 Update on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses Circulating Globally in Wild Birds - December 2021
- SARS-CoV-2 and North American Wildlife - December 2021
- African Swine Fever Detected in Dominican Republic - September 2021
- Winter 2020 Update on HPAI Viruses Circulating Globally in Wild Birds - December 2020
- An Update on NWHC Support to Wildlife Managers and Response to RHDV2 - August 2020
- Continued Expansion of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 in North America and Additional Instructions Regarding Mortality Event Investigations - May 2020
- Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 Confirmed in Wild Rabbits in the United States - April 2020
- NWHC Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Information About Coronaviruses in Wildlife - April 2020
- Widespread Avian Paramyxovirus-1 in Eurasian Collared Doves in the North Central US - February 2020
Bulletins by Topic
White-Nose Syndrome
- Winter 2021/2022 Bat Submission Guidelines and Highlights of the 2020/2021 White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - January 2022
- Winter 2019/2020 Bat Submission Guidelines and Highlights from the 2018/2019 White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - January 2020
- Winter 2018/2019 Bat Submission Guidelines and Updates from the 2017/2018 White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - November 2018
- Winter 2017/2018 Bat Submission Guidelines and Highlights from the 2016/2017 White-nose Syndrome Surveillance Season - January 2018
- Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Investigations and Update on Surveillance for Pseudogymnoascus destructans - December 2016
- White-Nose Syndrome Updates for the 2015/2016 Surveillance Season - July 2016
- White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Washington State - April 2016
- Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Investigations in 2016 and Update on Surveillance for Pseudogymnoascus destructans - February 2016
- Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance and Early Detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans - March 2015
- White-Nose Syndrome Updates for the 2013/2014 Surveillance Season - August 2014
- Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance - January 2014
- White-Nose Syndrome Updates - August 2013
- WNS Winter Submission Guidelines - January 2013
- White-Nose Syndrome Updates - January 2012
- Universal precautions for the management of bat white-nose syndrome - September 2011
- White-nose syndrome discovered in Kentucky, new counties in Maryland and West Virginia, and Nova Scotia - May 2011
- White-nose syndrome discovered in Ohio, new county in Maryland, and New Brunswick - April 2011
- Indiana and North Carolina: White-nose syndrome in bats confirmed - February 2011
- Revised Case Definitions for White-Nose Syndrome and Winter 2010/2011 Bat Submission Guidelines - February 2011
- White-Nose Syndrome - Geomyces destructans detected in Oklahoma Cave Myotis and Listed Missouri Gray Bats - May 2010
- White-Nose Syndrome - New Locations in Missouri, Tennessee and Quebec - April 2010
- White-Nose Syndrome - New Locations in Canada, Maryland and Tennessee Confirmed - March 2010
- Update on WNS - Tennessee Finding - Feburary 2010
- Update on WNS Information - December 2009
- Wildlife Disease Updates: White-Nose Syndrome, Avian Influenza Surveillance, Bat Rabies and other NWHC Updates - August 2009
- Description of Fungus Associated with White-Nose Syndrome - November 2008
- White-Nose Syndrome in Bats in the Northeastern U.S. - April 2008
Avian Influenza
- Status and Response to Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in North America - January 2022
- Detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in an Exhibition Farm in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada - December 2021
- Winter 2021 Update on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses Circulating Globally in Wild Birds - December 2021
- Winter 2020 Update on HPAI Viruses Circulating Globally in Wild Birds - December 2020
- Update on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds - December 2017
- Update on H5N8 and other H5 HPAI viruses in Wild Birds - December 2016
- Detection of EA/AM H5N2 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a Mallard from Alaska - August 2016
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Update: National Surveillance and Recent Wild Bird Detections - July 2015
- Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Found in the Central United States - March 2015
- Detection of Novel Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds - January 2015
- Detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses H5N2 and H5N8 in Wild Birds of the United States - December 2014
- Avian Influenza A (H7N9) in China - May 2013
- NWHC Plan for Avian Influenza Surveillance of Wild Birds - May 2012
- Low-path Avian Flu H5 and N1 Found in Michigan and Ohio, and Confirmation on Results from Illinois and Montana October 2006
- Low-path Avian Flu H5 and N1 Found in Northern Pintails in Montana September 2006
- Low-path Avian Flu H5N1 Found in Mallards in Pennsylvania - September 2006
- Low-path Avian Flu H5N1 Found in Mallards in Maryland - September 2006
- Avian Influenza H5N1 Reported in Michigan Likely Low Path Strain - August 2006
- Wild bird mortality reporting - June 2006
- Some basic flu facts regarding the ABC Movie "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" - May 2006
- Interim Guidelines for the Protection of Persons Handling Wild Birds With Reference to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 - August 2005 - Updated January 2007
- Update on Avian Influenza in Wildlife - July 2005
- Avian Influenza in Wild Birds - 2004
West Nile Virus
- West Nile Virus Causes Bald Eagle and Eared Grebe Mortality in Utah - January 2014
- West Nile Virus in Greater Sage-Grouse - November 2006
- West Nile Disease Continues to Move West - August 2002
- Wild Birds Implicated in Rapid Spread of West Nile Virus - 2001
- Update on West Nile Virus - October 2000
- Update on West Nile Virus - September 2000
- Update on West Nile Virus - March 2000
Assorted Wildlife Disease Issues
- SARS-CoV-2 and North American Wildlife - December 2021
- African Swine Fever Detected in Dominican Republic - September 2021
- An Update on NWHC Support to Wildlife Managers and Response to RHDV2 - August 2020
- Continued Expansion of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 in North America and Additional Instructions Regarding Mortality Event Investigations - May 2020
- Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 Confirmed in Wild Rabbits in the United States - April 2020
- NWHC Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Information About Coronaviruses in Wildlife - April 2020
- Widespread Avian Paramyxovirus-1 in Eurasian Collared Doves in the North Central US - February 2020
- Range expansion of Haemaphysalis longicornis (Asian longhorned tick) in the United States: Information for identification and surveillance - May 2019
- Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease virus 2 Confirmed in a Domestic Rabbit in the United States - October 2018
- Update: Avian Paramyxovirus-1 in Double-Crested Cormorants and Eurasian Collared Doves - September 2018
- Avian Paramyxovirus-1 in Double-Crested Cormorants and Eurasian Collared Doves - August 2018
- Haemaphysalis longicornis Detected in the United States - June 2018
- Avian Cholera Mortality Events in the Mississippi and Pacific Flyways During 2018 - February 2018
- Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus in Double-Crested Cormorants - August 2016
- Bsal: An Emerging Disease of Salamanders - April 2016
- Large-Scale Mortality of Common Murres in Alaska - January 2016
- The Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership – event reporting system - May 2015
- USGS National Wildlife Health Center Reorganization and Update on Disease Investigation Services - July 2014
- Avian Cholera in Alaskan Seabirds - December 2013
- Sea Star Mortality on the West Coast - December 2013
- USGS National Wildlife Health Center Wildlife Diagnostic Services - September 2013
- Snake Fungal Disease in the United States - April 2013
- Cyanobacterial Disease Killing Coral on Kauai, Hawaii - December 2012
- Updates from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center - November 2012
- Hemorrhagic Disease in Wild Ruminants - September 2012
- Update on Schmallenberg Virus in Europe - July 2012
- Update on Ranavirus in Amphibians and Reptiles - March 2012
- Summary of 2010 Newcastle Disease virus outbreaks in wild birds in upper Midwest and the Northeast - December 2010
- Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus Found in Double-Crested Cormorants - September 2010
- Puffer Fish Die-off in Hawaii - August 2010
- Avian Salmonellosis in Wild Birds - April 2009
- Virulent Newcastle Disease Confirmed in Minnesota - September 2008
- Exotic Parasite of American Coot Discovered in Exotic Snail in Lake Onalaska - July 2007
- CWD found in both free-ranging and captive deer in New York - May 2005
- Hantavirus Prevention Measures - 2004
- Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy in Wild Birds - 2004
- Foot and Mouth Disease in Europe - 2001
- Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy (AVM) Re-Emerging in 2000 - 2000