Sec. 190404. National Wildlife Health Center
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The Director shall establish and maintain a national database of wildlife disease, including diseases that cause a human health risk, at the National Wildlife Health Center. The Director, acting through such Center, shall, with respect to wildlife disease— develop, validate, and deploy diagnostic tests; provide diagnostic services to Federal, State, and Tribal natural resource management agencies; and provide confirmatory testing of diagnostic results. The Director shall— develop a framework for wildlife disease experts in the United States to conduct risk assessments of wildlife diseases; communicate risk factors associated with wildlife diseases to the public; develop strategies to mitigate the threat posed by wildlife disease; and in coordination with the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service— monitor wildlife disease threats to evaluate the risk posed by and impact of such diseases on the United States, conduct research and development to create statistically supported sampling frameworks for broad-scale surveillance of wildlife disease threats; conduct research on human dimensions of wildlife disease transmission and on effective outreach to stakeholders to help manage wildlife disease; conduct statistical modeling to understand and predict wildlife disease movement; and make recommendations to the Secretary of the Interior on wildlife species to be listed as injurious under section 42 of title 18, United States Code.
The Director, in coordination with the Administrator for the United States Agency for International Development, may strengthen global capacity for wildlife health monitoring to enhance early detection of diseases that have the capacity to jump the species barrier and pose a risk to the United States, including by providing funding for— academic, governmental, and nongovernmental partner entities working to prevent wildlife disease outbreaks, emerging pathogens of wildlife origin, and epidemics or pandemics; building wildlife disease diagnostic capacity and monitoring systems in countries with areas that pose a high risk for animal-to-human transmission of disease; and providing technical assistance through training, data sharing, and performing testing in countries with areas that pose a high risk for animal-to-human transmission of disease.
In this section, the term Director means the Director of the United States Geological Survey. In this section, the term wildlife disease means a disease-causing agent in wildlife that potentially poses a threat to human health.