Committee On Wildlife Diseases

The purpose of the Committee on Wildlife Diseases is to promote an understanding of the importance of diseases to free-ranging wildlife, commercial captive wildlife and domestic animals and the interactions these groups of animals and diseases have; to protect the integrity of native free-ranging wildlife populations while simultaneously protecting native free-ranging wildlife, commercial captive wildlife, and domestic animals of the United States from diseases they may share or which may be transmitted among them; to protect free-ranging wildlife of the United States from accidental introduction of diseases; to assist in the identification and management of disease problems of free-ranging and commercial captive wildlife; and to promote sound wildlife disease management practices among responsible agencies and industries.

Committee Members

Committee Member Directory

Reports

2008 Report

2007 Report

2006 Report

2005 Report

2004 Report

Resolutions

2007

Resolution 1: Publication of the Proposed Cervid Brucellosis Rule in the Federal Register

Resolution 2: Finalize the Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program and Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer, Elk and Moose Rule

Resolution 3: Vaccine for the Various Strains of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in Cervids

Resolution 4: Addition of Retrophayngeal Lymph Nodes as an Acceptable Tissue, along with the Obex, in State CWD Monitoring Programs

Resolution 5: Funding and Planning of Integrated and Comprehensive Animal Health Surveillance

Resolution 15: Cooperative Research and Management of Wildlife/Livestock Disease Interactions

2005

Resolution 29: National Fish and Wildlife Health Initiative

2004

Resolution 19: Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9