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Techniques and Methods 15-A1

U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service

Introduction

By Milton Friend

Edited by J. Christian Franson, Milton Friend, Samantha E.J. Gibbs, and Margaret A. Wild

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This is the third iteration of the National Wildlife Health Center's (NWHC) field guide developed primarily to assist field managers and biologists address diseases they encounter. By itself, the first iteration, “Field Guide of Wildlife Diseases: General Field Procedures and Diseases of Migratory Birds,” was simply another addition to an increasing array of North American field guides and other publications focusing on disease in free-ranging wildlife populations. Collectively, those publications were reflecting the ongoing transition in the convergence of wildlife management and wildlife disease as foundational components within the structure of wildlife conservation as a social enterprise serving the stewardship of our wildlife resources. For context, it is useful to consider those publications relative to a timeline of milestones involving the evolution of wildlife conservation in North America.

First posted January 23, 2015

For additional information, contact:
Director, National Wildlife Health Center
U.S. Geological Survey
6006 Schroeder Rd.
Madison, WI 53711–6223
http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/

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Suggested citation:

Friend, M., 2015, Introduction, in Franson, J.C., Friend, M., Gibbs, S.E.J., and Wild, M.A., eds., Field manual of wildlife diseases: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 15–A1, 10 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/tm15a1.

ISSN 2330–7055 (online)



Contents

Introduction

Emerging Infectious Diseases—What Are They?

“One Health”—A Team Approach for Combatting Disease Emergence

References Cited


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