Wildlife Health Bulletins

White-Nose Syndrome

Avian Influenza

• Update on H5N8 and other H5 HPAI viruses in Wild Birds - (December 2016)
• White-Nose Syndrome Updates for the 2015/2016 Surveillance Season - (July 2016)
• White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Washington State - (April 2016)
• Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Investigations in 2016 and Update on Surveillance for Pseudogymnoascus destructans - (February 2016)
• Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance and Early Detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans - (March 2015)
• White-Nose Syndrome Updates for the 2013/2014 Surveillance Season - (August 2014)
• Bat Submission Guidelines for White-Nose Syndrome Surveillance - (January 2014)
• White-Nose Syndrome Updates - (August 2013)
• WNS Winter Submission Guidelines - (January 2013)
• White-Nose Syndrome Updates - (January 2012)
• Universal precautions for the management of bat white-nose syndrome - (September 2011)
• White-nose syndrome discovered in Kentucky, new counties in Maryland and West Virginia, and Nova Scotia - (May 2011)
• White-nose syndrome discovered in Ohio, new county in Maryland, and New Brunswick - (April 2011)
• Indiana and North Carolina: White-nose syndrome in bats confirmed - (February 2011)
• Revised Case Definitions for White-Nose Syndrome and Winter 2010/2011 Bat Submission Guidelines - (February 2011)
• White-Nose Syndrome - Geomyces destructans detected in Oklahoma Cave Myotis and Listed Missouri Gray Bats - (May 2010)
• White-Nose Syndrome - New Locations in Missouri, Tennessee and Quebec - (April 2010)
• White-Nose Syndrome - New Locations in Canada, Maryland and Tennessee Confirmed - (March 2010)
• Update on WNS - Tennessee Finding - (Feburary 2010)
• Update on WNS Information - (December 2009)
• Wildlife Disease Updates: White-Nose Syndrome, Avian Influenza Surveillance, Bat Rabies and other NWHC Updates - (August 2009)
• Description of Fungus Associated with White-Nose Syndrome - (November 2008)
• White-Nose Syndrome in Bats in the Northeastern U.S. - (April 2008)

• Detection of EA/AM H5N2 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a Mallard from Alaska - (August 2016)
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Update:National Surveillance and Recent Wild Bird Detections - (July 2015)
• Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Found in the Central United States - (March 2015)
• Detection of Novel Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds - (January 2015)
• Detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses H5N2 and H5N8 in Wild Birds of the United States - (December 2014)
• Avian Influenza A(H7N9) in China - (May 2013)
• NWHC Plan for Avian Influenza Surveillance of Wild Birds - (May 2012)
• Low-path Avian Flu H5 and N1 Found in Michigan and Ohio, and Confirmation on Results from Illinois and Montana (October 2006)
• Low-path Avian Flu H5 and N1 Found in Northern Pintails in Montana (September 2006)
• Low-path Avian Flu H5N1 Found in Mallards in Pennsylvania - (September 2006)
• Low-path Avian Flu H5N1 Found in Mallards in Maryland - (September 2006)
• Avian Influenza H5N1 Reported in Michigan Likely Low Path Strain - (August 2006)
• Wild bird mortality reporting - (June 2006)
• Some basic flu facts regarding the ABC Movie "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" - (May 2006)
• Interim Guidelines for the Protection of Persons Handling Wild Birds With Reference to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 - (August 2005 - Updated January 2007)
• Update on Avian Influenza in Wildlife - (July 2005)
• Avian Influenza in Wild Birds - (2004)

West Nile Virus

Assorted Wildlife Disease Issues

• West Nile Virus Causes Bald Eagle and Eared Grebe Mortality in Utah - (January 2014)
• West Nile Virus in Greater Sage-Grouse - (November 2006)
• Update on West Nile Virus - (March 2000)
• Update on West Nile Virus - (September 2000)
• Update on West Nile Virus - (October 2000)
• Wild Birds Implicated in Rapid Spread of West Nile Virus - (2001)
• West Nile Disease Continues to Moves West - (August 2002)

• Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus in Double-Crested Cormorants - (August 2016)
• Bsal: An Emerging Disease of Salamanders - (April 2016)
• Large-Scale Mortality of Common Murres in Alaska - (Jan 2016)
• The Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership – event reporting system - (May 2015)
• USGS National Wildlife Health Center Reorganization and Update on Disease Investigation Services - (July 2014)
• Avian Cholera in Alaskan Seabirds - (December 2013)
• Sea Star Mortality on the West Coast - (December 2013)
• USGS National Wildlife Health Center Wildlife Diagnostic Services - (September 2013)
• Snake Fungal Disease in the United States - (April 2013)
• Cyanobacterial Disease Killing Coral on Kauai, Hawaii - (December 2012)
• Updates from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center - (November 2012)
• Hemorrhagic Disease in Wild Ruminants - (September 2012)
• Update on Schmallenberg Virus in Europe - (July 2012)
• Update on Ranavirus in Amphibians and Reptiles - (March 2012)
• Summary of 2010 Newcastle Disease virus outbreaks in wild birds in upper Midwest and the Northeast - (December 2010)
• Virulent Newcastle Disease Virus Found in Double-Crested Cormorants - (September 2010)
• Puffer Fish Die-off in Hawaii - (August 2010)
• Avian Salmonellosis in Wild Birds - (April 2009)
• Virulent Newcastle Disease Confirmed in Minnesota - (September 2008)
• Parasite found in Mississippi River backwater lake - (July 2007)
• CWD found in both free-ranging and captive deer in New York - (May 2005)
• Hantavirus Prevention Measures - (2004)
• Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy in Wild Birds - (2004)
• Foot and Mouth Disease in Europe - (2001)
• Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy (AVM) Re-Emerging in 2000 - (2000)