Top Animal Health Links (Apr 8-14)

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.

General / One Health

New model IDs primate species with potential to spread Zika in the Americas

From Canada Public Health: Climate change and infectious diseases: The challenges -Increased risk of tick-borne diseases -Increased risk of endemic mosquito-borne diseases -How will climate change impact microbial foodborne disease in Canada?

Companion Animals

High pressure pasteurization of raw pet food diets

Confusing Lone Star tick advertising

Tampa woman says her dog died after ingesting Bufo toad’s toxin

Equine

Confirmed case of equine herpes myeloencephalopathy (EHM) in the Regional Municipality of York. For details

EIA in Saskatchewan, April 4 2019

Are you an equine vet in Ontario? Please take five minutes to fill out the questions on our redesigned Equine Practitioner Survey

Given the recent cases of EHM in Ontario, horse owners may find this fact sheet a helpful resource

Wildlife

Rabbit hemorrhagic disease on Vancouver Island

From Florida: Virologists suspect novel virus killing softshell turtles in St. Johns

A research letter on Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in White-Tailed Deer, Canada