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    ​The Center for Wildlife Health is located within the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries in the Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. The Center provides a multidisciplinary environment for the study of health issues arising from the interaction of wildlife, livestock, humans and the environment.

    Photo montage of Center for Wildlife research project ​​

    ​News​ 

    • Congratulations to graduate student Ana Towe, winner of the Terry Amundson Presentation Award at the International Wildlife Disease Association Conference. The award recognizes outstanding student research and scholarship in the field of wildlife health. Ana’s talk was titled ‘Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in the Cuban treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis)’.

    • Assessment of the Asian longhorned tick in the United States

    • EurekAlert! NSF awards UTIA faculty grant to study fungal pathogen of amphibians:
      $2.5 million study to examine pathogen that devours the skin of salamanders

    • New Bsal Rap by UTIA CWH students

    • UTIA CWH study confirms significant disease risk if gloves are not changed or animals are co-housed during research

    • Dr. Shigetoshi Eda of the Institute of Agriculture and Jayne Wu of the Tickle College of Engineering have been collaborating to develop a portable low-cost device that can detect infectious diseases and pathogens in a matter of minutes. Read more here.

    • Congratulations to Dr. Debra Miller for receiving the Duck Award at the 66th WDA Annual International Conference in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico!

    • Dr. Debra Miller was named President of the Wildlife Disease Association. She began her 2-year term on July 28, 2017.

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