Weekly Disease Surveillance Scan (Jul 16-22)

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

Farther afield than our usual North American stories, but the spread of this outbreak is striking: Rift Valley Fever hits Mandera county

An interesting take on citizen science: Researchers Study Thousands Of Ticks Collected By The People They Bit

Ticks that carry Lyme disease on the move in New Brunswick

No new cases of rabies were detected this week – We are currently at 414 cases of raccoon strain, and 19 cases of fox strain rabies in Ontario to date.

Companion Animals

From the US: Largest Interventional Canine Clinical Trial Begins Next Stage

Equine

Strangles at Finger Lakes Race Track, Farmington, New York

2 zonkeys, 1 horse diagnosed with botulism at Equine rescue

Poultry

More cases of Virulent Newcastle Disease have been found in backyard flocks in California

Swine

Promising pathogen news from SVA project