Top Animal Health Links This Week (Dec 10 -16)

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 tick species capable of transmitting deadly disease is spreading in the U.S.

Rodents on farms pose health risk to livestock, people

Freshwater Is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife

Bees

Extracts of Polypore Mushroom Mycelia Reduce Viruses in Honey Bees

Companion Animals

Snail fever in Utah: Pond drained after dogs die

Two members of staff at a Japanese veterinary hospital fell ill after treating a cat with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)

Dog food sold in Canada recalled over potential toxic vitamin D levels

Equine

Additional Equine Influenza Cases in Washington State

Positive Case of Equine Infectious Anemia Confirmed in British Columbia

Positive Case of Strangles Confirmed in New Brunswick

Poultry

Industry Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT) Disease Advisory – United Counties of Leeds and Grenville

Swine

African Swine Fever’s Tragedy of the Commons

Wildlife

The Mysterious Virus That Killed The Oregon Zoo’s Youngest Elephant