Threats and response

Wildlife health and disease

Surveillance, diagnostics, forensics and outbreak reporting for wild populations.

• ProMED-mail

  Expert-verified global reporting of emerging infectious disease outbreaks

• USGS National Wildlife Health Center

  Federal center for wildlife disease research, diagnostics and mortality investigation

• WHISPers

  Searchable archive of wildlife mortality and morbidity events in North America

• Wildlife Disease Association

  Professional society for wild animal health, publisher of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases

• EcoHealth Alliance

  Research nonprofit studying disease spillover at the human-wildlife interface

• WOAH Wildlife Health Programme

  International wildlife disease surveillance framework

• International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council

  Training, certification and standards for wildlife rehabilitators

• Society for Wildlife Forensic Science

  Free downloadable standards for wildlife forensic laboratories, covering species identification and evidence handling for prosecutions

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