USAHA/AAVLD Scientific Session

Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases: What’s the Risk?

• Introduction — N. James MacLachlan, moderator
• Climate Change and Emerging Diseases: A Search for Patterns and Predictions in a Changing World — E. Paul Gibbs
• Impact of Bluetongue in Europe: A Recent Example of an Emerging Disease — Vincenzo Caporale
  Part I
  Part II
• Emergence of Bluetongue and Related Orbiviruses in the United States — David Stallknecht
• Unique Challenges to North America Posed by Emerging Diseases — Terry McElwain
• USDA Perspectives — John Clifford