Top Animal Health Links (Jun 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. If you missed last week’s top links, check them out here.

One Health / General

First US human bite from worrying longhorned tick noted

Bovine

Researchers have combined two separate computer models to identify areas at highest risk for outbreaks of lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) in cattle

B.C. bovine TB outbreak’s trace-out completed

Companion Animals

Girl contracts potentially fatal illness from pet rat in Southern California

New parasite making its way into Ontario, Sudbury veterinarian warns

Raw diets and multidrug-resistant bacteria

From the US: Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Linked to Pet Hedgehogs

Equine

An outbreak of neurologic equine herpes virus has been confirmed on a single premises in southern Saskatchewan

EIA confirmed in a horse in the Squamish-Lillooet regional district of British Columbia

Fish

Conservation groups sound alarm over another sea lice outbreak in Clayoquot Sound

Swine

PED in Manitoba

Wildlife

Northeastern U.S. deer more susceptible to wasting disease than those to the west