Editor-in-Chief
Debra Bourne
ISSN: 0090-3558
eISSN: 1943-3700
Impact Factor
1.62
About the Journal
The JWD is a primary tool used by the WDA in accomplishing its mission, to “promote healthy wildlife and ecosystems, biodiversity conservation, and environmentally sustainable solutions to One Health Challenges."
Photo credit: Pat Page. Bubo virginianus (great horned owl)
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Features & Information
Congratulations to WDA’s 2024 BioOne Ambassadors
Dr Sarah Wright - Discover more about Sarah’s research and watch her winning video
Congratulations to 2024's WDA/IAAAM winner
Each year the Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) and the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine (IAAAM) jointly provide an award for the best student-authored aquatic animal paper in the previous year’s Journal of Wildlife Diseases (JWD).
The newest recipient of this accolade is Molly Horgan, for her paper Development And Validation Of A Novel Duplex Probe–Hybridization Quantitative PCR For Lymphoma-Associated Miroungine Gammaherpesvirus 3 In Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga Angustirostris) which appeared in the January 2023 issue, 59(1).
Molly is currently a third year zoological medicine resident at the University of Florida/White Oak Conservation, pursuing a career in wildlife medicine, and is interested in studying diseases of free-ranging and rehabilitated wildlife.
Featured Articles
From 57(4)
REVENGE OF THE TREES: ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS AND POPULATION EFFECTS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS ON A BREEDING COLONY OF DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS ( PHALACROCORAX AURITUS ) OVER A PERIOD OF 21 YEARS
Frederick A. Leighton, Patrick A. Leighton, Sarah Wood, Thijs Kuiken
Journal: Journal of Wildlife Diseases
J Wildl Dis (2021) 57 (4): 773–783.
Persecution of Birds of Prey in Flanders: A Retrospective Study 2011–19
An Garmyn, Lieze Rouffaer, Tom Roggeman, Marc Verlinden, Katleen Hermans, Marleen Cools, Mark Van den Meersschaut, Siska Croubels, An Martel
J Wildl Dis (2021) 57 (4): 922–926.
EVALUATION OF IMMUNE FUNCTION IN TWO POPULATIONS OF GREEN SEA TURTLES ( CHELONIA MYDAS ) IN A DEGRADED VERSUS A NONDEGRADED HABITAT
Patricia Sposato, Patricia Keating, Peter L. Lutz, Sarah L. Milton
Journal: Journal of Wildlife Diseases
J Wildl Dis (2021) 57 (4): 761–772.
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Endowment of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases and its
worldwide distribution possible.
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