National Wildlife Disease Program (NWDP)

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE

• avian influenza
• rabies
  

SPECIAL INTEREST

Canada goose surveillance and damage control (July 2008)
WDB Virchow collected 13 HPAI surveillance samples from resident Canada geese under Nebraska Game and Parks direction, assisting a Natural Resource District with nuisance and potential disease issues at a recreation area.

Protecting threatened/endangered species (July 2008)
WDB Virchow assisted US Army Corp of Engineers with protection of piping plover and least tern chicks against avian and mammalian predation. Virchow assisted in two weeks of the four-week project along a forty mile reach of the Missouri River between Nebraska and South Dakota.

Nebraska completes HPAI sampling of birds for season (June 2008)
WDB Virchow completed his goal of sampling 1500 birds (live released, agency-harvested and hunter-harvested) for the April 1, 2007 - March 30, 2008 season. In addition, 704 environmental sampled were taken in Nebraska. Both Wildlife Services and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission worked hard to accomplish these sampling goals. Surveillance of morbidity and mortality events continue.

Contact:
Wildlife Disease Biologist Dallas Virchow (NE)
(402)434-2343
Dallas.R.Virchow@aphis.usda.gov