USGS National Wildlife Health Center Added to the Prestigious List of OIE Collaborating Centres
A recent U.S. Geological Survey press release announced that “the USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) has been named as an OIE Collaborating Centre for Research and Diagnosis of Emerging and Existing Pathogens of Wildlife by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) “at its Global Conference on Wildlife this past February in Paris.
The World Organization for Animal Health is an international as well as an intergovernmental organization. “Its objectives include ensuring transparency in the global disease situation, collecting, analyzing and disseminating veterinary scientific information, and promoting veterinary services, among other activities.
A critical component of OIE's scientific expertise is the network of Collaborating Centres. These are centers of expertise in a specific designated sphere of competence relating to management of animal health issues. Collaborating Centres assist the OIE by providing their expertise internationally.”
... The NWHC will be creating a consortium with the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, which is based at the University of Saskatchewan and is an OIE Collaborating Centre for Wildlife Disease Surveillance and Monitoring, Epidemiology and Management.”
Source: USGS Press Release - USGS National Wildlife Health Center Receives Prestigious International Designation by the World Organization for Animal Health
July 22, 2011
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