Parasitic and Vector Borne Diseases
Committee on Parasitic and Vector Borne Diseases
The purpose of the Committee on Parasitic and Vector-Borne Diseases is to encourage investigation of, and research on, the epidemiology of new and ongoing parasitic or vector-borne diseases that threaten the health of the animal industry of the United States, including foreign parasitic and vector-borne diseases; to encourage the development of new parasiticides to control parasitic diseases; to promote the cooperation of the agencies of the United States government, including USDA, EPA, and FDA, as well as academic institutions and private industry (through the Animal Health Institute); to develop safe and cost effective preventive measures and/or treatments to control identified parasitic or vector-borne diseases; and to encourage regulatory agencies to restrict entry into the United States of potentially health threatening, parasitic or vector-borne diseases.
Committee Members
Reports
2017
2016
Presentations
2018
- Update on SCWDS Arthropod Survey – Mark Ruder, SCWDS, University of Georgia
- Updates on Equine Piroplasmosis, Equine Infectious Anemia, and Equine Arboviruses – Angela Pelzel-McCluskey - USDA-APHIS-VS
- Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program 2018 - Hallie Hasel, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Texas Cattle Fever Tick Update - T.R. Lansford, III, TX Animal Health Commission
- Cattle Fever Tick Research Initiatives at Texas A&M University College Station – Dee Ellis, Texas A&M
- Orbivirus Activities at NVSL – Sabrina Swenson, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit 2018 Update - Leela Noronha, USDA–ARS
- Livestock Arthropod Pest Research Unit Activity Report - Adalberto Pérez de León, USDA-ARS
- Status of Haemaphysalis Longicornis in the United States - Denise Bonilla, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Haemaphysalis longicornis tick New Jersey’s Response – Manuel Tamassia, NJ Dept of Agriculture
- Longhorned Ticks in New York – David Smith, NY Dept of Agriculture
2017
- Update on SCWDS Arthropod Surveys - Mark Ruder, SCWDS, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia
- Updates on Equine Piroplasmosis, Equine Infectious Anemia, and Equine Arboviruses - Angela Pelzel-McCluskey, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Screwworm Outbreak: Florida 2016 – 2017 - John B. Welch, USDA-APHIS-IS
- Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program 2017 - Hallie Hasel, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Texas Cattle Fever Tick Update - T.R. Lansford, III, Texas Animal Health Commission
- Orbivirus Activities at NVSL - Tracy Sturgill, USDA-APHIS-VS
- U.S. Bluetongue Surveillance Strategy: Pilot Study Update - David Hsi, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit - William C. Wilson, USDA-ARS-Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit (ABADRU)
- Progress Update by the Livestock Arthropod Pests Research Unit – John Goolsby, USDA-ARS
- Determining Competent Vectors of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus in Florida – Samantha M. Wisely, University of Florida
- Advances in Sylvatic Plague Management: not just for prairie dogs? - Anne Justice-Allen, Arizona Game and Fish Department
2016
- SCWDS Arthropod Surveillance - Joseph Corn and Ms. Stacey Vigil, Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, University of Georgia
- Update on SCWDS Culicoides Surveys in the Southeast - Stacey Vigil, Mark Ruder and Joseph Corn
- Equine Piroplasmosis, Vesicular Stomatitis, and Equine Arbovirus Updates - Angela Pelzel-McCluskey, USDA-APHIS-VS
- USDA ARS Knipling-Bushland Livestock Insects Research Laboratory: Research Update - Robert J. Miller, USDA-ARS Cattle Fever Tick Laboratory
- New World Screwworm in the Florida Keys – Diane Kitchen, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Overview of the Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Unit - David Scott McVey, USDA, ARS, Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit (ABADRU)
- Bluetongue Virus Surveillance Update - David Hsi, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Zika Virus in the Americas - Stephen Higgs, Scott Huang and Dana Vanlandingham, Biosecurity Research Institute, Diagnostic Medicine & Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University
- Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Update - Hallie Hasel, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Cattle Fever Tick Update - T.R. Lansford, Texas Animal Health Commission
- Orbivirus Activities at NVSL - Tracy Sturgill Samayoa, USDA-APHIS-VS
- Cervidae Health Research Initiative - Samantha Wisely, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
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Committee on Parasitic Diseases
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