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"@context": "http://schema.org/", "@type": "WebPage", "additionalType": "Project", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/science/enhanced-capacity-chronic-wasting-disease-research-and-certified-diagnostics", "headline": "Enhanced Capacity for Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Certified Diagnostics at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center", "datePublished": "August 23, 2021", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "David S Blehert", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/david-s-blehert", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0002-1065-9760" } } ], "description": [ { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "As charismatic megafauna of North America, declines to these populations caused by an infectious disease negatively impacts state economies and presents numerous challenges to the state and federal agencies charged with managing these species. To address this challenge, the National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) is working to bring online added national capacity for conducting CWD diagnostics and for developing novel diagnostic tests needed by wildlife managers to more efficiently conduct CWD surveillance and assess the impacts of CWD management actions." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal disease that impacts populations of deer, elk, moose, and other cervid species caused by an infectious protein called a prion." } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "National Wildlife Health Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Biology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Fish and Wildlife Disease" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "chronic wasting disease (CWD)" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Wildlife Disease Surveillance" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Diagnostic" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "NWHC research project" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Diagnostic Tests" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Terrestrial Wildlife Diseases" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ecosystems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Chronic Wasting Disease" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Diseases of Wild Hoofstock" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Diagnostic Services" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" } ]
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