Top Animal Health Links This Week (Aug 15-21)

To help you stay on top of animal health and disease news, we are posting our top links of the week, which will direct you to important information and discussions around animal health. Below, please find the links, broken down by Network. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter if you want to see the best animal health links on the net every day. Read our guides on how to use Twitter and Facebook for continuing education. If you missed last week’s top links, check them out here.

General

Our new podcast on producer mental health with Ontario Veterinary College’s Dr. Andria Jones-Bitton

New Ontario rabies cases, including 2 in Haldimand, 1 in Niagara. Most eastern cases so far

Learn how to Properly Package Fixed Tissue Samples

Bees

We have published our first Bee Producer report, with info on small hive beetle, American foulbrood, testing + more!

‘Zombie’ honeybees make first appearance in Canada

Companion Animals

Parasite prevalence in fecal samples from shelter dogs and cats across the Canadian provinces

Equine

Fatal Horse-Associated Streptococcus zooepidemicus infection via Worms and Germs blog

Poultry

How to collect oropharyngeal + cloacal swabs from poultry for viral testing