Top Animal Health Links (Mar 25-31)

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

It’s National Tick Awareness month, and the CVMA is reminding Canadians how important it is to be informed about ticks and the potential hazards ticks pose for you and your pets.

Companion Animals

New strain of canine distemper virus arrives in North America

Our Raw Food podcast series with the OVC’s Drs. Scott Weese and Adronie Verbrugghe. We cover Raw and Homemade diets from nutritionist and infectious disease perspectives

Canine Leptospirosis Maps

Equine

Equine Infectious Anemia found in a mule in North Carolina – The remaining equids at the facility were tested and were negative for EIA and will be observed and retested in 60 days.

Positive case of strangles found in New Brunswick horse

Poultry

Virulent Newcastle Disease spreads north in California

Wildlife

Wildlife deaths in Australia: ‘Falling out of trees’: dozens of dead possums blamed on extreme heat stress

Confirmed cases of CWD up sharply in Sask.