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12/4/2008 White-Nosed Syndrome in Bats
The USFWS has posted guidelines for cavers regarding White-Nosed Syndrome. It offers some good guidelines (especially regarding disinfecting) that might be of interest to wildlife rehabilitators.

Their white-nose webpage also has some good info and updates.


10/28/2008 Revised Federal Falconry Regulations
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized changes to the Federal regulations governing falconry on October 8, 2008 (Federal Register Volume 73, pages 59448-59477). The questions and answers summarize some of the changes. For more information on these and other changes, refer to the final rule at www.fws.gov/migratorybirds. All falconers are encouraged to review the new regulations carefully.


6/3/2008 The Use of Tamiflu in Wildlife
Please follow this link to view the NWRA's Vet Committee's Statement Regarding the Use of Human Antiviral Drugs in Wildlife Patients.


6/1/2008 Nationwide Recall of Heparin and Saline Pre-filled Flushes
Nationwide Recall of Heparin and Saline Pre-filled Flushes .


12/7/2006 Avian Influenza Update
See NWRA's Avian Influeza FAQ and it's March and November (2006) updates.


8/29/2006 Disease mapping services

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are pleased to announce an expansion of their disease mapping services. The new web site, http://diseasemaps.usgs.gov, in addition to showing West Nile virus (WNV) activity, maps cases of 5 other arboviruses: St. Louis encephalitis (SLE), eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), western equine encephalitis (WEE), La Crosse encephalitis (LAC), and Powassan virus (POW). Data on these diseases are provided by state health departments to CDC using CDC's ArboNet surveillance system. Every Tuesday at 3 a.m. a summary report is generated from the ArboNet database and transmitted to USGS. These data are used to create the more than 700 maps contained on the web site.

Anyone who uses the http://westnilemaps.usgs.gov address will be redirected to the new homepage at http://diseasemaps.usgs.gov.

Stephen C. Guptill, Ph.D.
Senior Research Physical Scientist
U. S. Geological Survey
810 National Center
Reston, VA 20192 USA
sguptill@usgs.gov



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