The Wildlife Disease Information Node is a collaborative project working to develop a Web-based monitoring and reporting system to provide state and federal resource managers, animal disease specialists, veterinary diagnostic laboratories, physicians, public health workers, educators, and the general public with access to data on wildlife diseases, mortality events, and other critical related information. Data are contributed voluntarily, with partners deciding which data they choose to share.
Building partnerships and providing tools to facilitate long-term collaborative efforts in the wildlife disease arena through a Web-based monitoring and reporting system are being pursued to support the following major WDIN objectives:
- Faciliate access to data and information on wildlife and zoonotic diseases
- Visualize clusters on morbidity and mortality events
- Track the prevalence and spread of various diseases at the most discrete spatial and temporal levels
- Predict possible new disease appearances
- Identify previously unrecognized wildlife-human-domestic animal disease relationships
- Help limit further disease spread
- Help prevent future outbreaks
The Wildlife Disease Information Node site is in transition. Please visit the current Web site for access to data, information and applications.
