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NCEL Fact Sheet W I L D L I F

16 Feb 2024

The costs of wildlife diseases to public health are enormous, and tend to fall Examples of wildlife diseases include: disproportionately on BIPOC communities, stemming from poor COVID-19, HIV, Malaria, Ebola, SARS, healthcare access and structural discrimination. [...] Health approach – a recognition of the interconnections between the health of people, animals, and our shared environment – as one of Nationally, Black, Hispanic and Native the best ways to respond to the threat of zoonotic disease. [...] 811 (enacted 2023): Requires the Texas Animal Other Resources Health Commission, upon a wildlife disease outbreak, to notify each adjacent landowner and the Parks and Wildlife • U. [...] • Washington SB 5693 (enacted 2022): Appropriates $1 million • American College of Environmental Lawyers’ for the creation of an environmental forensics research center to measures that states can adopt to help prevent or help disrupt and dismantle illegal international wildlife and plant mitigate the next pandemic. [...] • NCEL’s webpage on wildlife trafficking provides an • Arkansas SB 476 (enacted 2023): Creates the Rural Veterinary overview of how states can limit the importation and Student Scholarship Program and requires that all graduates trade of exotic animals, which also contributes to the complete advanced training in public health, livestock spread of zoonotic disease.
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