National Wildlife Disease Program (NWDP)
Recent Activities: VIRGINIA
| DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
- avian influenza
- plague & tularemia
- feral swine diseases
SPECIAL INTEREST
Canada goose mortality (July 2008)
WDB Puckett responded to a report of a Canada Goose mortality in Cumberland
County. The bird was retrieved and sampled for HPAI. No other carcasses
were found in the area and we have not
received any additional reports of sick fowl from the area.
Initiation of tularemia sampling in Virginia (July
2008)
WDB Puckett contacted Bob Beach (NWDP, Fort Collins) about initiating
tularemia sampling in Virginia. WDB Puckett was informed that the CDC’s
main interest for tularemia testing is in aquatic rodents. Nobuto kits
were sent from Ft. Collins and samples will start being collected during
August from aquatic rodents taken during the normal operational activities
of the VA WS program.
Virginia WDB collects samples for AI surveillance in Guantanamo
Bay (2008)
WDB Puckett and other WS personnel conducted AI surveillance on Guantanamo
Bay Naval Station (GTMO) in Cuba and obtained 52 AI samples the first
day of sampling. A VS import permit allowing AI samples entry into the
US from Cuba was finally obtained the day before leaving Cuba.
Contact:
Wildlife Disease Biologist Todd Puckett (VA)
(804)739-7739
Todd.Puckett@aphis.usda.gov
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