National Wildlife Disease Program (NWDP)
Recent Activities: MASSACHUSETTS
| DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
- avian influenza
- chronic wasting disease
- rabies
- tick-borne diseases
SPECIAL INTEREST
Cooperative chronic wasting disease surveillance (July
2008)
WDB Mickley offered the Massachusetts Division of Fish and Wildlife
(MDFW) deer and chronic wasting disease (CWD) biologists samples from
a deer taken in Wildlife Services airport control work for CWD monitoring.
A second similarly taken deer’s CWD samples were submitted to
the MDFW Belchertown field office by DS Wilda in support of this wildlife
disease cooperative work.
Massachusetts presents information at meeting at Tufts University
(2008)
WDB Mickley attended the monthly Animal Surveillance and Education
Committee meeting at Tufts University. Information was presented by
Tufts researchers about common eider die-offs on Cape Cod and about
White Nose syndrome in bats. WDB Mickley informed the group about the
completion of WS HPAI collecting activities for the season. He informed
them as well about his participation in the MI TB deer project and the
Annual Meeting of Wildlife Disease Biologists.
Contact:
Wildlife Disease Biologist Randall Mickley (MA/CT/RI)
(508)476-2715
Randall.M.Mickley@aphis.usda.gov
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