Wildlife health and disease
Surveillance, diagnostics, forensics and outbreak reporting for wild populations.
6 resources
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ProMED-mail
Expert-verified global reporting of emerging infectious disease outbreaks
Subscribe to catch an outbreak report weeks before it reaches the published literature
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USGS National Wildlife Health Center
Federal center for wildlife disease research, diagnostics and mortality investigation
Send a diagnostic question to the federal center instead of guessing at a mortality cause
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WHISPers
Searchable archive of wildlife mortality and morbidity events in North America
Search whether a die-off like yours was already recorded nearby, which reframes the diagnosis
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Wildlife Disease Association
Professional society for wild animal health, publisher of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Join for the journal and the community when wildlife health keeps recurring in your work
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WOAH Wildlife Health Programme
International wildlife disease surveillance framework
Cite the international surveillance framework when pressing a government to report wildlife disease
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Society for Wildlife Forensic Science
Free downloadable standards for wildlife forensic laboratories, covering species identification and evidence handling for prosecutions
Download the free laboratory standards before evidence you collect ever reaches a prosecutor