Top Animal Health Links This Week (Dec 17 – 30)

Below, please find our weekly disease surveillance scan 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.

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General / One Health

Rabies in Florida: Palmetto Bay resident bit by rabid otter alerts nearby residents

Increasing Detection of Emerging Zoonotic Pathogens

Why are so many people getting a meat allergy?

Skunk found north of Guelph tests positive for rabies

Companion Animals

UPDATE: FDA Expands Recall of Dry Dog Foods – The agency has since expanded its list of known recalled products to include lots from King Soopers. This brings the total number of companies that have issued recalls to 9.

Equine

Barn Fire Claims Five Standardbreds

Pennsylvania Barn Under Quarantine After Herpes Diagnosis

Fish

Check out our quarterly Aquatic Animal Health Report

Poultry

USDA Confirms Virulent Newcastle Disease in a Commercial Chicken Flock in California

Swine

What does livestock-associated MRSA mean for the neighborhood?

A finishing barn in Perth County has contracted Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus.

Managing DON in swine feed

UK farmers warned to be on alert for African swine fever as virus hits Europe