Abstract
New mission of the OIE on the international wildlife disease notification system was introduced. Main purpose of this WAHIS/Wild system is collecting and presenting the worldwide data of wildlife diseases by OIE to each member country using the WAHIS/Wild database. It is useful for control zoonoses, domestic animal infections derived from wildlife as well as maintain ecosystem and conservation of biodiversity. The basic tactics of the system which was discussed in the ad hoc group of the Working Group of Wildlife Diseases in OIE are summarized. Present situation and problems of wildlife disease notification in Japan were also described here.
