The Journal of Wildlife Diseases (JWD) is published quarterly by the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA). The WDA is an international organization of scientists, academicians, wildlife and fisheries specialists, and others whose mission is to acquire, disseminate, and apply knowledge of the health ...
Each year the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) and the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine (IAAAM) jointly provide an award for the best student-authored aquatic animal paper in the previous year’s Journal of Wildlife Diseases (JWD). ...
OIE) defines surveillance (or epidemio-surveillance) as the on-going recording of diseases in animal populations with a view to disease management [5]. In short, surveillance means “information for action”. Its purpose is to support effective decision-making, including policy and priority setting...
We present here a study using detailed behavioral association data and epidemiological network models to design and evaluate disease intervention strategies for a wild primate population. Outbreaks were simulated on monthly contact networks parameterized with association data from a wild chimpanzee community ...
The Journal of Wildlife Diseases (JWD) is published quarterly by the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA). The WDA is an international organization of scientists, academicians, wildlife and fisheries specialists, and others whose mission is to acquire, disseminate, and apply knowledge of the health ...