Dr. Robert McLean works on a West Nile disease project at the National WIldlife Health Center with a Carolina Chickadee (Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service)
There’s a new online map for tracking
wildlife diseases that threaten animals and
people. Chuck Quirmbach reports:
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There’s a new online map for tracking
wildlife diseases that threaten animals and
people. Chuck Quirmbach reports:
Diseases such as West Nile Virus, Chronic Wasting Disease, Avian Flu, and
others are now often in the news. A website partly developed by the US
Geological Survey aims to track reports of the disease outbreaks around the
world.
Veterinarian Josh Dein leads the project. He says he hopes both health care
professionals and the general public use the online map.
“One of the things you can do is say ‘what’s happening in my neighborhood,
what’s happening in my state, my country?’ And maybe I’m traveling to
someplace else. Maybe I want to look to see what’s happening somewhere else.”
Dein says the map also allows people to narrow their search to specific countries, types of
disease and affected species.
For The Environment Report, I’m Chuck Quirmbach.