Weekly Disease Surveillance Scan (Jun 25 – Jul 1)

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 

Typhus hospitalization prompts flea warning in San Diego County

The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?

From the US: Bourbon Virus Now Listed as Emerging Illness — New Case in St. Louis County

Why veterinarians are the key to defeating Ebola

Bees

Are you a veterinarian interested in bees? OAHN is setting up a listserv to connect Ontario veterinarians interested in bee veterinary medicine. Find out more here:

Bovine

Dairy Calf Vaccine Advice

Companion Animals

Lyme disease carrying ticks have made a home in Hamilton

Flea, Environmental Allergies on the Rise, Says Banfield

New Feline Hepadnavirus Identified

Equine

With over 400 cases of rabies in raccons, bats, and fox in Ontario in the past couple of years, it is especially important for horse owners to vaccinate their animals against rabies

Poultry

Genomic test may improve avian influenza surveillance