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Scwds Briefs: Volume 17, Number 3 (October 2001)
Scwds Briefs: Volume 17, Number 3 (October 2001)
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications
• Biosecurity Alert
• The United Kingdom appears to be near success in eradicating foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).
• USDA declares chronic wasting disease CWD emergency in captive elk.
• CWD Calamity in Colorado: Approximately 1,300 animals in seven Colorado captive elk herds currently are under quarantine because chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been diagnosed in or traced to the herds.
• Further Spread of West Nile virus (WNV)
• Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus was isolated from the brain of a wild white-tailed deer from Houston County, Georgia. Togaviridae, Culiseta melanura
• Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) is a severe neurological …
Scwds Briefs: Volume 17, Number 2 (July 2001)
Scwds Briefs: Volume 17, Number 2 (July 2001)
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications
• West Nile virus (WNV) recently was detected in wild birds found dead in Florida and Georgia.
• The cause of avian vacuolar myelinopathy (AVM) remains undetermined despite extensive diagnostic and research investigations conducted since the disease was first recognized as a significant cause of eagle mortality in 1994.
• The spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) that began in the United Kingdom in February 2001 has slowed dramatically.
• A test of the animal disease emergency management system was conducted July 9-12, 2001, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the states of …
Scwds Briefs: Volume 17, Number 1 (April 2001)
Scwds Briefs: Volume 17, Number 1 (April 2001)
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications
• Concern for FMD Increases: As of April 30, 2001, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks had occurred in the United Kingdom (UK), The Netherlands, France, Republic of Ireland, Colombia, Argentina, and other countries. FMD also is present in South America and in some areas of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
• Keep FMD out of America!
• APHIS Policies for Wildlife in an FMD Emergency
• What if FMD Hits?
• Georgia’s Ossabaw Island has the distinction of being the only confirmed enzoootic focus of the New Jersey serotype of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV-NJ) in the United States, and the …
Scwds Briefs: Volume 16, Number 4 (January 2001)
Scwds Briefs: Volume 16, Number 4 (January 2001)
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications
• Avian vacuolar myelinopathy (AVM) was confirmed in eight bald eagles and is suspected in another six eagles that died from mid-November 2000 through late January 2001 at Clarks Hill Lake in eastern Georgia.
• Bovine tuberculosis TB in Manitoba Elk
• CWD in a Nebraska Deer: Chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids has been found for the first time in a free-ranging cervid outside Colorado and Wyoming.
• Tropical Bont Tick on St. Croix: The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that the tropical bont tick (Amblyomma variegatum) had been found on St. Croix in the U.S. …