Top Animal Health Links This Week (Mar 20-26)

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

Forbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The Northeast

Ontario Rabies Update – 1 new case of raccoon rabies in Hamilton + confirmation of rabies in a cow in Perth County

Companion Animals

Existing drugs could treat leishmaniasis, study suggests

Wellington Dufferin Guelph Public Health Group newsletter – Seoul Virus recently detected in Ontario

Poultry

New Podcast: Avian Influenza Information for Commercial Producers with Dr. Tom Baker

Learn about avian influenza and what small flock owners can do in our new podcast

Bird flu strain hitting China may be getting more dangerous

USDA confirms High Path Avian Influenza in second case in Tennessee

A great Poultry Health Research Network seminar with Dr. Mike Joyce: “Current Poultry Disease Challenges”

Low pathogenic avian influenza detected in western Kentucky

Small Ruminants

Solid fact sheet on preventing Caseous Lymphadenitis in goats from Ontario Goat

Swine

To our swine vet followers – do you agree that these are “5 Attributes of Swine Vets”?

Wildlife

Interesting project in Saskatchewan focused on the capture and humane euthanasia of wild boar

State wildlife officials report 4,200 waterfowl deaths caused by avian cholera