Top Animal Health Links This Week (May 30 – June 5)

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. 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

Find out what we’ve been up to with the OAHN update page from the Animal Health Lab’s June newsletter

There are a lot of approaches to Fly Control for livestock

In the UK: Antibiotics for animals to be restricted under government plans to beat drug resistance

Ontario rabies update: 5 new cases were found this week – 4 in Hamilton and 1 in Brantford

Poultry

Good news for poultry animal welfare! $125,000 Donation Supports Poultry Welfare Research

Small Ruminants

Real-time sheep parasite monitor farms launched

We have published a new podcast on C. ovis, discussing what it is, how to prevent it, and its status in Ontario

Swine

Pseudorabies is a federally reportable disease in Canada. A case was recently found in Missouri

Wildlife

Sparrows can be victims and carriers of salmonella