Weekly Disease Surveillance Scan (May 21-27)

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

OAHN featured in U of Guelph Research Research Magazine – pp 20-21

In the US: Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds

Bovine

Salmonella Heidelberg Persists – Salmonella Heidelberg is a multi-drug-resistant Salmonella species that can cause severe illness in calves and humans, and is transmittable between the two.

A US perspective on bovine anaplasmosis: Risk of Contracting Anaplasmosis Grows

Equine

Check out our West Nile Virus infographics, with equine WNV stats from Ontario and Canada, as well as information about how it’s spread and vaccination

Poultry

USDA Confirms Virulent Newcastle Disease in Backyard Exhibition Birds in California, Not a Food Safety Concern

Wildlife

From South Carolina: Raccoon potentially exposes one person in Edgefield County to rabies

The CWHC has an informative write-up about the recent cases of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease in British Columbia