Top Animal Health Links This Week (Jun 26-Jul 2)

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

Tracking ticks: New study forecasts spread of Lyme disease in Eastern Canada

We post a lot about mosquitoes, as new species carry new diseases. Asian tiger mosquito found in southeast Nebraska

How to protect yourself from growing risk of Lyme disease – the risk area covers nearly all of Toronto

World Health Organization launches open (free) courses on epidemic/infectious diseases

Have you found a tick on your animal or yourself? Contribute to the Worms and Germs Tick Tracker

Equine

What’s New in Equine Parasite Control? Up-to-date information about deworming your horses

Swine

Denmark study shows that a strain of drug-resistant staph carried by pigs is causing illnesses in people

PEDv outbreak shows the ‘inconvenient’ truth about biosecurity

Wildlife