Top Animal Health Links This Week (Aug 24-30)

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. If you want some tips for effectively using Twitter for continuing education, read our guide here.

General

Using Facebook for Research and Continuing Education

Post mortem podcast #4: Placement, Incisions, Tips, Removing Brains, Rabies and Toxic Plants

Professor Tom Solomon believes zoonotic infections threaten us like never before

Bovine

Learn more about body condition scoring for beef cattle

Evaluation of the Johne’s disease risk assessment and management plan on dairy farms in Ontario, Canada

Equine

Monitor your horse’s vital health data, body condition score, body weight with Equine Guelph Horse Health Tracker App

Great infographics from The Horse, covering everything from vaccination and disease to healthy coats

Check out Public Health Ontario’s weekly surveillance report on West Nile virus

Poultry

Informative read from Clinician’s Brief on parasites in backyard chickens

The US has ended its avian influenza-related limits on Ontario

Learn more about biosecurity at Fall Fairs from Worms & Germs Blog

Small Ruminants

This PDF teaches you about Body Condition Scoring for small ruminants

Swine

Update on Swine Enteric Coronavirus Disease in US