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Company Database:
Wildlife Disease Association
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| Type |
Organization
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| Homepage |
http://www.wildlifedisease.org/ |
| Headquaters |
Lawrence, KS, USA |
| Address |
P.O. Box 1897
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| City |
Lawrence |
| Zip-code |
KS 66044-8897 |
| Phone |
(785) 843-1221 |
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| Focus of the WDA |
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Endangered Species
– WDA members with international, state, provincial, federal, and
private agencies have been intimately involved in efforts to preserve
and improve the status of endangered species populations. Efforts
include monitoring the status of the black-footed ferret in Wyoming,
determining the impact of diseases on eagles in the West and of gray
wolves in the North Central states. |
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Game and Furbearing Animals
– Extensive research and surveillance have provided untold benefits to
wildlife through private and public agencies by enhancing understanding
of the impact of diseases on wild animal populations. |
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Wildlife Conservation
– Many members, working as and/or with wildlife biologists, investigate
the effects of environmental toxins, habitat alterations, and
introduction of exotic species on the health of native wildlife. |
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Wildlife Relocation
– Many members are engaged in the reintroduction of wildlife species
into areas from which they have been extirpated. Efforts are being
made to prevent the introduction of disease and to monitor the health
of these animals. |
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Wildlife Rehabilitation
– Veterinarians and other clinically oriented specialists affiliated
with the WDA have been increasingly interested in the rehabilitation of
sick and injured wildlife, especially raptors. |
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Zoological Parks
– Zoo veterinarians supervise the care or a large variety of species
and provide husbandry and veterinary care for many threatened and
endangered species from all over the world. |
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Public Health
– WDA members have contributed substantially to knowledge about
arthropod-borne encephalitis, rabies, tularemia, Lyme disease,
hantavirus, environmental toxicants, and many other diseases affecting
human health. |
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Livestock and Poultry
– Wildlife specialists participate in research, clinical and field
efforts to control diseases that not only infect our wildlife species
but may be economically devastating to domestic livestock as well.
Among these diseases are malignant catarrhal fever, brucellosis,
tuberculosis, viscerotropic velogenic Newcastle disease, and African
swine fever. |
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Comparative Medicine
– Many WDA members with specialty training in the health and biological
sciences are involved in basic research using wildlife as models of
diseases found in humans or domestic animals. |
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Ecosystem Health
– Because no species exists independently of its environment many WDA
members are addressing the complex issues of overall ecosystem health.
One topic of special concern is aquatic animal health, as many marine
mammals and sea birds serve as biomarkers for the assessment of the
health of the marine environment. |
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Journals of
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|  Wildlife Disease Association (1) |
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