National Wildlife Disease Program (NWDP)
Recent Activities: SOUTH DAKOTA
| DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
- avian influenza
- plague & tularemia
SPECIAL INTEREST
National Park Service to help collect plague and tularemia
samples in South Dakota (June 2008)
WDB Ryan Powers (ND/SD) was contacted by personnel from Badlands National
Park in South Dakota regarding the plague and tularemia surveillance
Wildlife Services is conducting in cooperation with Centers for Disease
Control (CDC). Park personnel are interested in cooperating with Wildlife
Services on this surveillance effort by collecting and submitting blood
samples from carnivores. Badlands National Park is bordered by the Conata
Basin to the south where WS assisted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
with plague dusting efforts in 2005. Sampling supplies have been forwarded
to Park personnel and the first shipment of Nobuto blood samples have
been submitted to the CDC for testing.
Contact:
Wildlife Disease Biologist Ryan Powers (ND/SD)
(701)250-4405
Ryan.A.Powers@aphis.usda.gov
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