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Health Issues |
| Current News and Developing Issues Concerning Your Health | Current news and developing issues concerning heath issues. |
| Amphibian Malformations and Declines | Amphibians around the world are suffering from deformities, diseases and population declines. USGS National Wildlife Health Center personnel have examined over 100 different species of amphibians from national wildlife refuges, national parks, and private lands across the country to help identify the causes of these problems and suggest effective solutions. |
| Animal Sentinels of Human Health | Animals often are the first to come in contact with the microbes, contaminants, and pollutants that can make people sick. Animal symptoms and responses to conditions around them can serve as an early warning system for potential threats to human health. |
| Arsenic Contamination in Ground-water resources the Bengal Delta, Bangladesh | Tens of thousands of people, located primarily on the Bengal Delta of southern and eastern Bangladesh, have been stricken with arsenical dermatitis, hyperkeratosis, and chronic and acute cases of arsenicosis, and other related diseases and maladies as a result of drinking arsenic-laden ground water extracted from over 10 million tube wells that have been installed in the shallow, unconfined aquifer system that exists throughout Bangladesh. |
| Avian Botulism | Avian botulism is a paralytic disease caused by ingestion of a toxin produced by the bacteria, Clostridium botulinum. |
| Avian Cholera | Avian cholera in wild birds (Most species of birds and mammals can become infected with different strains of Pasteurella multocida) is primarily caused by one strain, Type 1 of Pasteurella multocida. The species of birds most commonly affected are ducks and geese, coots, gulls, and crows. |
| Avian Influenza | The Department of the Interior - H5N1 National Surveillance Efforts. |
| Avian Pox | Avian pox is a slowly developing disease of birds caused by several different strains of avipoxvirus. A variety of birds worldwide, including upland gamebirds, songbirds, marine birds, and the parrot family can become infected. Raptors are occasionally affected, but the disease is rare in waterfowl. |
| Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy | Avian vacuolar myelinopathy (AVM) is a recently discovered neurological disease affecting waterbirds, primarily bald eagles and American coots, in the southern U.S. |
| Beaches | Beaches are a place to play, watch wildlife, fish, and swim. With beaches giving us so much, we have to protect them from a variety of potential problems. We can help you plan a trip to the beach, learn about beaches and the issues around them, and understand how we protect beaches. (U.S. EPA) |
| Beach Safety | Microbiology and Public Beach Safety: Integrated Science for the Protection of Public Health USGS Fact Sheet 2006-3045 |
| Chattahoochee Riverway Project | BacteriALERT Program - This website provides recent E. coli bacteria counts and National Park Service health advisories for two locations on the Chattahoochee River. |
| Chemical and Pathgogen Exposure Through Recreational Waters | Rivers, lakes, and coastal areas can become contaminated with fecal pathogens that threaten the health of people who recreate in the polluted water. |
| Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) | A disease of the nervous system in deer and elk that results in distinctive brain lesions. |
| Coral Reefs | Coral reefs worldwide are under tremendous stress primarily due to human activities along the coasts. While climate change, overfishing and coastal development have been implicated as a major cause of coral reef decline, diseases seem to play an increasing role. |
| Drinking Water Exposure to Chemical and Pathogenic Contaminants | Safe drinking-water supplies are critical for protecting public health. Drinking water treatment and monitoring technologies are used by public water utilities to assure compliance with existing federal and state drinking water standards. |
| Duck Plague (Duck Virus Enteritis) | Duck Plague, which affects only ducks, geese and swans, is caused by a herpes virus. Susceptibility varies greatly among waterfowl species: blue-winged teal, redhead ducks and wood ducks are highly susceptible, while pintails are only slightly susceptible. |
| Environmental Health Studies in the U.S. - Mexico Border Region | The major issues surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border involve economics and population growth that present challenges to environmental management and natural resource planning. |
| Envirovet Networking webumentary | Viewers can choose video clips discussing wildlife heath issues for gorillas, lions, rhinos, condors, elands, whales, grey wolves, owls, frogs, caves and fish - (a broadband connection is recommended). |
| Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases - General Field Procedures and Diseases of Birds | This field manual is a revision and expansion of our 1988 Volume 1, Field Guide to Wildlife Diseases and is funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Federal Aid, Administrative Grant No. AP95-017. |
| Fish Health, Fungal Infections and Pfiesteria: Role of the USGS. | The increasing incidence of fish-health problems, ranging from small external sores and lesions to large-scale fish kills in the Chesapeake Bay and other Mid-Atlantic estuaries, is of growing concern to natural resource managers and residents of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. |
| Foot and Mouth Disease | Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a highly infectious, difficult to control viral disease of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Most affected animals recover, but the disease leaves them debilitated and causes severe losses in meat and milk production. |
| Heal the Bay | Heal the Bay is a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to making Southern California coastal waters and watersheds, including Santa Monica Bay, safe, healthy and clean through research, education, community action and advocacy. |
| Health and Environmental Fact Sheets | USGS Health and Environment Fact Sheets containing information on General Human Health. |
| Human Consumption of Chemical and Pathogenic Contaminants | USGS conducts monitoring and research on Bioaccumulative contaminants in the environment, biomagnificantion in the food chain and the effects of bioaccumulative contaminants on fish and wildlife. |
| Human Health Issues | Public health problems caused by environmental contamination and emerging infectious diseases are a growing concern worldwide. |
| International Wildlife Health Institute | To preserve, restore and sustain wildlife health and the ecosystems they inhabit. |
| Lead Poisoning in Migratory Birds | Lead Poisoning is an intoxication, caused by the absorption of hazardous levels of lead in body tissues. Ingested lead pellets from shotgun shells are the most common source of lead poisoning in birds; other sources include lead fishing sinkers, mine wastes, paint pigments, bullets and other swallowed lead objects. |
| Leetown Science Center, West Virginia | Research, restore, maintain, enhance, and protect aquatic and terrestrial organisms and their supporting ecosystems. |
| Lichens in the National Parks - Database | This database contains over 29,000 records of documented occurrences of lichens in units of the U. S. National Park System. . |
| Mercury in the Environment | USGS provides information on mercury sources, cycling, bioaccumulation and toxicity to assist land and resource managers reduce mercury hazards to people and the environment. |
| Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Assessment of Soil Moisture and Vector-borne Disease Potential in the Pleistocent Beaumont and Lower Rio Grande Delta, Southern Texas and Northern Taumalipas, US-Mexico Border Region | A dengue fever outbreak near Matamoros, Mexico during the Fall, 2004 became an epidemic during the Summer, 2005 as a result of heavy rainfall and flooding associated with the landfalls of Hurricane Emily and Tropical Storm Gert. |
| Mortality Events Nationwide for Wildlife | 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. |
| National Wildlife Health Center | Provides information, technical assistance, research, education, and leadership on national and international wildlife health issues. |
| Ohio Nowcasting Beach Advisories | Local agencies monitor Lake Erie beaches daily to determine levels of bacteria. |
| Potential contaminants and pathogens in air, dusts, and soils | A variety of human health problems have been linked to exposures to dusts, other atmospheric aerosols, and soils. |
| Salmonellosis | Salmonellosis is a bacterial disease caused by a group of bacteria in the genus salmonella. All species of birds are susceptible to salmonella infection; the outcome of infection depends on a variety of factors, including age, stress, host species susceptibility, and bacterial virulence. Salmonellosis is a common cause of mortality in birds at birdfeeders. |
| Surfrider | Dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world’s oceans, waves and beaches. Founded in 1984 by a handful of visionary surfers in Malibu, California, the Surfrider Foundation now maintains over 50,000 members and 80 chapters worldwide. |
| Turtles (Diseases of Marine Turtles) | The most significant disease of sea turtles is called fibropapillomatosis (FP). |
| Vector-borne Diseases and Zoonotic (transmitted between animals and humans) Diseases | The potential of emerging diseases such as Avian Influenza (bird flu) to spread rapidly world-wide is accelerating research on zoonoses, diseases that are transmitted between animals and humans. |
| Waterborne Disease and the Health Effects of Water Pollution | Physician on-line guide to help diagnose, manage and treat waterborne diseases from exposure to waterborne contaminants. |
| Water Investigations in Fallon NV, and related to the Leukemia Cluster | During the ground-water investigation done in support of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigation of the childhood leukemia cluster in Fallon, USGS discovered that gross alpha radioactivity in numerous wells was substantially higher than could be explained by the presence of uranium isotopes. |
| West Nile Project | The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is committed to understanding the effects of WNV and answering the remaining questions surrounding the disease. |
| West Nile Virus Maps | Since 2003, West Nile Virus activity occurred in 46 states and caused illness in over 9,800 people. This site maps the virus, background, historical data, FAQs and has some good links.. |
| Wildlife Disease Association | Aquire, disseminate, and apply knowledge of the health and diseases of wild animals in relation to their biology, conservation and interactions with human and domestic animals |
| Wildlife Disease Information Node | National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry. |
| Wildlife Health Bulletins | Current Health Bulletins from the National Wildlife Health Center |
| Wildlife Health Publications | Current Health Publications from the National Wildlife Health Center |
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