Weekly Disease Surveillance Scan (Sep 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

Latest Ontario Rabies Map: 1 New case found this week in one raccoon in Hamilton

Health unit issues warning after central Ontario woman bitten by rabid bat

The invasive Asian tiger mosquito, which is capable of spreading the Zika virus, has been found in Michigan. No evidence of Zika was found

Kent County woman dies of rabies, first Delawarean since 1941

Bees

Our new video of OMAFRA’s Paul Kozak and Honey Bee Research Centre’s Paul Kelly discussing Population Dynamics

Equine

On Sept 6, OMAFRA received confirmation of the first case of equine West Nile Virus infection in 2018 in Middlesex County

Ancient horse found perfectly preserved in Siberian permafrost Foal was 2 months old when it died and lived 30,000 to 40,000 years ago

Swine

Classical Swine fever reported in Japan 26 years after last outbreak

Wildlife

Researchers closing in on mystery illness killing Toronto’s most controversial birds

Initial tests of dead seals found in Maine & New Hampshire reveal avian flu and distemper