Emerging infectious diseases in free-ranging wildlife-Australian zoo based wildlife hospitals contribute to national surveillance.
Emerging infectious diseases are increasingly originating from wildlife. Many of these diseases have significant impacts on human health, domestic animal health, and biodiversity. Surveillance is the key to early detection of emerging diseases. A zoo based wildlife disease surveillance program developed in Australia incorporates disease information from free-ranging wildlife into the existing national wildlife health information system. This program uses a collaborative approach and provides a strong model for a disease surveillance program for free-ranging wildlife that enhances the national capacity for early detection of emerging diseases.
Australian Wildlife Health Network, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia.
Keren
K
Cox-Witton
Zoo and Aquarium Association Australasia, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia.
Andrea
A
Reiss
Australian Wildlife Health Network, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia.
Rupert
R
Woods
Australian Wildlife Health Network, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia.
Victoria
V
Grillo
Healesville Sanctuary, Zoos Victoria, Healesville, Victoria, Australia.
Rupert T
RT
Baker
Sea World, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
David J
DJ
Blyde
Adelaide Zoo, Zoos South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Wayne
W
Boardman
Territory Wildlife Park, Berry Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
Stephen
S
Cutter
Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, Beerwah, Queensland, Australia.
Claude
C
Lacasse
Melbourne Zoo, Zoos Victoria, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Helen
H
McCracken
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia.
Michael
M
Pyne
Adelaide Zoo, Zoos South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Ian
I
Smith
Perth Zoo, South Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Simone
S
Vitali
Taronga Zoo, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia.
Larry
L
Vogelnest
Territory Wildlife Park, Berry Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
Dion
D
Wedd
Zoo and Aquarium Association Australasia, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia.
Martin
M
Phillips
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Chris
C
Bunn
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Lyndel
L
Post
D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000662:veterinary*; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005843:Geography; D006762:Hospitals, Animal; D062486:Public Health Surveillance; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology*