NWHC Scientists present at Wildlife Disease Association Meeting

NWHC scientists are presenting at the 58th annual meeting of the Wildlife Disease Association in Blaine, WA on August 2-7. This year’s conference theme, Wildlife Health from Land to Sea: Impacts of a Changing World, was inspired by events of a changing climate, economy, and political environment across the planet and is centered in how those changes impact the natural world and health of wildlife from terrestrial ecosystems to the oceans. The conference will feature a wide breadth of workshops, presentations, symposia and specials sessions relevant to these issues.

USGS Media Release: New Ouchless Plague Vaccine, Shipwrecks Wrecking Coral Reefs, White-Nose Syndrome in Bats, and More at the Wildlife Disease Association Conference

More information about the conference can be found at the WDA website.

Workshops

• Krysten Schuler, Wildlife Disease Specialist and Carol Meteyer, Wildlife Pathologist (Aug. 2) - "Field Investigation of Wildlife Mortalities."

Presentations

• David Blehert, Diagnostic Microbiologist (Aug. 3) - Bat white-nose syndrome: An emerging fungal pathogen?
• Krysten Schuler, Wildlife Disease Specialist (Aug. 3, standing in for Nancy Thomas, Endangered Species Specialist) - Evidence of Morbillivirus infections in sea otters in Washington State.
• Thierry Work, Wildlife Disease Specialist (Aug. 3) - Shipwrecks lead to unhealthy coral reefs: A case study at Palmyra Atoll NWR; Diseases and wildlife translocations: endangered laysan ducks as an example
• Tonie Rocke, Research Epizootiologist (Aug. 5) - Consumption of baits containing raccoonpox-based plague vaccines protects prairie dogs against plague infection.
• Milt Friend, Emeritus Scientist (Aug. 6) - Society, Wildlife Disease and Wildlife Conservation: Oxymoron or Evolutionary Siblings?
• Jeffrey Lorch, Biological Technician - A PCR method for detecting the white-nose syndrome-associated Geomyces sp. fungus on the skin of bats” (Poster)
• Michael Samuel, Research Statistician (Aug. 6) - Socially facilitated transmission of chronic wasting disease between female white-tailed deer
• Carol Meteyer, Wildlife Pathologist (Aug. 6) - Reovirus-associated necrotizing enteritis in American Crows

Other NWHC attendees include:
Jonathan Sleeman
Scott D. Wright

Note: The Wildlife Disease Association in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Health Programs have sponsored free electronic access to all issues of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases including issues from the most recent 18 months for people from more than 110 countries.