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Avian Influenza Wildlife Health Bulletin
A strain of avian influenza (H5N1) in Asia has recently killed or been the reason for depopulating millions of domestic chickens. Human deaths due to H5N1 virus have also been reported. The potential spread of this virus is of international concern.  
Mosquito West Nile Virus Alert
The West Nile virus is an insect-borne virus that had not been reported in the Western Hemisphere prior to 1999.
Elk Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is related to a group of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).
Salamander Amphibian Malformations & Decline: Reports and Resources
Recent reports of amphibian declines and frog malformations have caused great concern among the public and scientific communities.
Trumpeter Swan Mortality and Health Information
During the past quarter-century the emergence of new diseases afflicting humans and the re-emergence of previously conquered diseases have become an international focus....
   
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White-Backed Vulture Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan
Bald Eagle Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy
AVM was first detected in 1994 in bald eagles at De Gray Lake in the Ouachita Mountains of southwestern Arkansas.
FMD virus Foot and Mouth Disease
The ongoing pandemic of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in Europe and other parts of the world is of great concern to the North American Agriculture Community.
L. Polyoon Emerging Diseases in wildlife
The mobility of wildlife enhances the potential for infectious disease to quickly spread to new locations & populations....
Sea Otter Sea Otter Mortality
Recent increases in the frequency and variety of infectious diseases in the southern sea otter may jeopardize.... 
Birds Flying Wetlands, Waterfowl and Avian Cholera Outbreaks
Biologists from the USGS have been working to untangle the ecological complexities of an infectious bacterial disease....
Ground Squirrel Animal Welfare
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