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Categories for selection of wildlife disease events for reporting into eWHIS.
<p>Categories for selection of wildlife disease events for reporting into eWHIS.</p
Cases<sup>*</sup> for November 2010– October 2011 reported through the pilot project, by taxonomic group.
<p>*A case may involve single or multiple animals.</p>+<p>The majority of bat cases were submitted for exclusion testing for Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV).</p
Threatened species for which data was captured through the pilot project.
<p>*The koala (combined populations of Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory) was listed as vulnerable in May 2012.</p
Geographic location of the zoos participating in the surveillance program.
<p>Geographic location of the zoos participating in the surveillance program.</p
Examples of disease events captured for each reporting category (see Table 2).
<p>*Includes ‘non-listed’ pathogens and agents of wildlife <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0095127#pone.0095127-World1" target="_blank">[49]</a>.</p
Indicative numbers of free-ranging wildlife cases seen by veterinary hospitals at six major Australian zoos over a 12 month period during 2008/2009.
<p>*Data from three zoos did not differentiate feral from native species; for these zoos, feral animal cases are included with native species numbers.</p