Top Animal Health Links This Week (Mar. 14-20)

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

Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses has a great series of #onehealth seminars coming up at the OVC

Dr. Maureen Anderson from OMAFRA talks about the current rabies cases in Hamilton and what is currently being done

#onehealth and #zoobiquity at its finest!! Vets and physicians learning together on case studies!

Here’s a great guide on responsible use of antimicrobials in veterinary practice

Companion Animals

Learn more about lungworm in #Ontario dogs on the Worms and Germs blog with the OVC’s Dr. Weese

Equine

New Equine Canada Rule Changes Regarding Equine Welfare & Medications

Excellent article for horse owners as we go into the spring- prime parasite time! “The ABCs of FECTs”

New research reins in deadly equine disease

Poultry

The heightened biosecurity ILT advisory for #GreyCounty has been lifted. More details here

Swine

Understand issues surrounding antibiotic resistance

Wildlife

9 new cases of rabies in ON this week (7 raccoons, 2 skunks, from Hamilton). Total raccoon cases: 68 since Dec 2015