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The Wildlife Disease News Digest regularly brings together wildlife disease topics making the news. Explore the news using the Digest's companion application, the Global Wildlife Disease News Map.
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The condition in bats known as 'white-nose syndrome' was first noted among dead and hibernating bats within several caves near Albany, New York, in February 2007.
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USGS and a network of partners across the country work on documenting wildlife mortality events, in order to provide timely and accurate information on locations, species and causes of death.
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The global spread of H5N1 increases the likelihood that it will eventually be detected in North America. There are a number of pathways through which the virus could be brought to this continent.
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Seventeen years after nontoxic shot requirements were established for hunting waterfowl, attention has shifted to lead poisoning in other species.
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Endangered Black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs are at risk from a sylvatic plague outbreak in South Dakota - USGS scientists are working to protect these animals from infection.
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Little brown bats with white-nose syndrome in NY cave. Photo by Al Hicks, NY Dept of Environ. Conservation. |
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