Proceedings of the 2024 Asia-Pacific Wildlife Health Workshop—Collaborating Against Shared Threats

Open-File Report 2024-1081
Prepared in cooperation with Korea National Institute for Wildlife Disease Control and Prevention and Wildlife Health Australia
Compiled by: Jonathan M. Sleeman

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Abstract

Emerging diseases of wildlife origin are increasingly transboundary (they spread rapidly across geographic regions and across continents). In recent years, examples include the rapid spread of African swine fever across Europe and Asia with negative effects on food security, and the near global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza which has devastated wildlife populations, caused economic harm, and which threatens public health; consequently, international partnerships and networks are essential to facilitate the sharing of information for improved situational awareness and better preparedness and response. In this regard, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Korea National Institute for Wildlife Disease Control and Prevention have had a long-standing partnership to foster scientific collaboration. A key part of the activities has been annual scientific workshops, which commenced in 2016.

The 2024 workshop in Hilo, Hawaii, was the most recent in these series of workshops and included participants from across Asia and the Pacific region, including Thailand, Vietnam, China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, and the United States. The goals of the workshop were:

  • to continue to build the wildlife health community of practice in the Asia-Pacific region and expand the participants to agencies and institutions from other countries in the region; and
  • exchange scientific knowledge among the participants to share best practices, create scientific networks, and build capacity in wildlife health science for the Asia-Pacific region.

The themes discussed at the workshop included wildlife health risk management, avian Influenza, African swine fever, climate change and emerging diseases, and international cooperation. This report contains the author-submitted abstracts which provide a summary of the presentations and discussions during the workshop. The aim is to share this information to continue to foster international scientific exchange to protect wildlife health, livestock, and public health from the negative impacts of infectious and noninfectious diseases.

Suggested Citation

Sleeman, J.M., comp., 2025, Proceedings of the 2024 Asia-Pacific Wildlife Health Workshop—Collaborating against shared threats: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2024-1081, 23 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20241081.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introducing the Wildlife Health Australia Collaborating Centre in Wildlife Health Risk Management—Working Regionally in the Interests of Australia’s Biosecurity and Biodiversity Resilience
  • Animal Health Capacity Building—The Role of Para-Vets in Animal Biosecurity for the Pacific Region
  • Collaborations Between Biologists and Veterinarians Yield Insights into Marine Turtle Fibropapillomatosis
  • Mitigating Transboundary Emerging Infectious Diseases—Wildlife and One Health Sustainability
  • System-Wide Approach to Wildlife Health Capacity Enhancement in Southeast Asia
  • The Integration of One Health Assets to Counter Public Health Threats in the Indo-Pacific
  • New Zealand Biosecurity and Wildlife Surveillance
  • Wildlife Health Risk Management—The Importance of Wildlife Health for One Health Outcomes
  • Introduction to Korea's Wild Bird Avian Influenza Policy
  • Surveillance of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Mammals in South Korea
  • Genetic Characterization of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 and H5N6 Viruses Isolated from Wild Birds in South Korea During the 2023–2024 Winter Season
  • Detection of Avian Influenza Virus in Mandarin Duck Since 2020 in South Korea
  • Risk-Based Targeted Surveillance for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Waterfowl in The United States
  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses Affecting Alaska Wildlife Exhibit Evidence of Interspecies Transmission and Globally Diverse Recent Common Ancestry
  • Forecasting Hemispheric-Level Movement of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Resulting from Waterfowl Migration
  • A Simulation Method for Constructing Migratory Host Networks from Band-Recovery and Satellite Telemetry Data
  • Predictors of Influenza A Virus Large-Scale Spatial Transmission and Probable Routes of Viral Movement
  • Establishing a Noninvasive Method for Evaluating Susceptibility of Endangered Bird Species to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Using Cultured Cells
  • Strategic Responses to Control and Prevent the Spread of African Swine Fever Virus—Efficient Capture and Surveillance of Wild Boars
  • The Efficacy of the African Swine Fever Vaccine Candidate ASFV-G-ΔI177L/ΔLVR for Korean Field Virus
  • Development and Characterization of High-Efficiency Cell-Adapted Live Attenuated Vaccine Candidate Against African Swine Fever Virus
  • African Swine Fever Prevention and Preparedness Activities Targeting Feral Swine in the United States
  • Ten Years of Feral Swine (Sus scrofa) Disease Surveillance in Guam
  • Adaptive Risk-Based Targeted Surveillance for Foreign Animal Diseases in Wild Pigs
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and One Health—An Ecological Perspective
  • Pathogen Spillover—From Wildlife Reservoirs to Global Epidemics
  • Applying Biomedical Tools to Understand Coral Disease
  • Understanding Drivers of Winter Tick (Dermacentor albipictus) Abundance and Distribution in New England
  • Use of Riparian Habitat by Invasive Culex quinquefasciatus and the Fate of Hawaiian Honeycreepers at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, Island of Hawai’i
  • Ke Kai Ola “The Healing Sea”—10 Years of Hawaiian Monk Seal Conservation Effort
  • Current Status and Response to ASF Outbreaks in Wild Boars in Korea
  • References Cited
  • Appendix 1. Asia-Pacific Wildlife Health Workshop 2024
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Proceedings of the 2024 Asia-Pacific Wildlife Health Workshop—Collaborating against shared threats
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2024-1081
DOI 10.3133/ofr20241081
Year Published 2025
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Midcontinent Regional Director's Office
Description vii, 23 p.
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) N
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