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USDA - APHIS - Wildlife Damage

National Wildlife Disease Program (NWDP)

Recent Activities: TEXAS

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE

  • avian influenza
  • plague & tularemia
  • feral swine diseases
  • rabies

SPECIAL INTEREST

HPAI surveillance in Ector County (July 2008)
WDB Bazan and TWS biologist, Jim Harper, collected seven cloacal/oropharyngeal samples and 20
environmental samples in Ector County. These pre-migration samples were taken from resident
mallards and a mix of other waterfowl species located at a city park in Odessa. This city park is
frequented by wild birds during migration.

Contact:

Wildlife Disease Biologist Janean Romines (TX)
(512)458-7111 x6421
Janean.Romines@aphis.usda.gov

Wildlife Disease Biologist Luis Bazan (TX)
(210)472-5451
Luis.R.Bazan@aphis.usda.gov

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

Last Modified: June 26, 2009