A recent publication in Journal of Wildlife Diseases described reference intervals for the acute phase proteins Serum-Amyloid A (SAA) and Haptoglobin (Hp) in free-ranging caribou (full article linked below). Acute phase proteins are used widely in domestic animals as an indicator of inflammation (one marker of current health status). This […]
Abstract: Emerging infections and environmental disruptions increasingly threaten wildlife and ecosystem health.Free-ranging wildlife often serve as early indicators of ecological instability, making timely detection ofmorbidity and mortality events critical for early warning. Yet, existing systems lack the analytical capacity forreal-time outbreak detection. We present WildAlert, an AI-driven early warning system […]
WildAlert- an AI-driven early warning system that integrates fine tuned BERT-based natural language processing models with unsupervised anomaly detection framework to
identify unusual wildlife health events using real-time pre-diagnostic clinical data from wildlife rehabilitation
organizations.
A March 2026 study documenting the parasites was published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Researchers from the University of Washington found Echinococcus multilocularis in 37 of the 100 coyotes they surveyed in Washington’s Puget Sound region. “The fact that we found it here in one-third of our coyotes was surprising, because it wasn’t […]
Read the March 2022 “Pathology Case of the Month” from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center involving a juvenile European Starling.
Results point towards the duration of torpor as well as the depth of torpor being important to a hummingbird’s energy balance.
A recent news article described how researchers are using drones to better track the health of blue whales, humpbacks and even orcas using the technique they refer to as the Snotbot Program.
In September 2021, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported a mortality event involving two eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and three eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) in a residential neighborhood in Wisconsin, U.S.
Analysis of 45,000 blood samples from wildlife found that evidence of plague activity was widespread, with seropositive animals detected in every western state of the contiguous U.S
Test your pathology skills! Read the full case report for a morbidity and mortality event involving both juvenile and adult Wild Turkeys in Wisconsin, USA.
WildAlert: A Real-Time, AI-Driven Early Warning System for Wildlife Health and Ecological Threat Detection 
Tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) previously not found in the Pacific Northwest has been detected in Washington state’s coyotes 
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Continues to Affect Wild Birds Across All Four U.S. Flyways 
Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) Annual Conference 2026: Chicago, Illinois July 26-31, 2026 
Global Amphibian & Reptile Disease Conference 2026 
Wildlife Disease Association 70th Annual International Conference 2022 
Virtual 36th Annual Wildlife & Exotic Animal Symposium hosted by the students of WAAM & AEMC at UC Davis 
Wildlife Disease Association/European Wildlife Disease Association Joint Virtual Conference 2021 Designed by WPZOOM
