Top Animal Health Links: July 29 – Aug. 4

Below, please find our weekly disease surveillance scan links, broken down by Network. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and now INSTAGRAM if you want to see the best animal health links and follow OAHN activities every day. Click here to see last week’s Animal Health Links.

One Health:

Three members of a Dufferin County family are being treated for possible exposure to rabies from a bat found in their barn. This is the first rabid bat confirmed in Dufferin County since 1990.

Bat tested positive for rabies in Kitchener, Ontario

Murine typhus human infection in Texas

Equine:

First Vesicular stomatitis case in Oklahoma in 2019 

OVC study investigating possible role of Neospora caninum in equine abortions

Poultry:

OAHN Poultry network research project summary investigating the presence of anti-microbial resistant bacteria in small poultry flocks in Ontario 

Wildlife:

Trichomonas infections of wild birds back in Nova Scotia

Wild boar groups are small so far in Ontario

Fish:

Columnaris disease info and updates in the OAHN Fish network’s Aquatic Animal Health Report