Déposition de cristaux d’oxalate de calcium dans les reins
L’activité principale du RCSF est d’effectuer des nécropsies (autopsies) sur des animaux sauvages afin de déterminer la cause de leur…
Calcium oxalate crystals in the kidneys.
As wildlife pathologists one of our goals is to determine the cause of death of wild animals submitted for necropsy.…
Bird Strikes and the Discovery of an Unusual Vireo: The Perils and Insights of Fall Migration
By now, fall migration has largely wrapped up in the Western/Northern region. Migration presents a host of dangers as birds…
Beware the porcupine! A case of misadventure in a young mountain lion.
CWHC Western/Northern recently received the carcass of a juvenile mountain lion from southwest Saskatchewan that fell ill after eating a…
Tularemia Outbreak in Muskrats at Long Point, ON
On April 13, the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative Ontario/Nunavut Region (CWHC ON/NU) was alerted to a mass mortality event involving…
Diagnostic Highlights
Graduate Students
Mammals
Ontario/Nunavut
Pathology Notes
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Is it tuberculosis?! Differential diagnoses for caseous lung lesions in deer
As a wildlife pathologist, probably the last thing you want to see when you open the chest cavity of a…
Sunfish Ashore in PEI
Last November (2019), The CWHC was informed that a very unusual fish had washed up on the red shores of…
Trichinella infection, and other findings, in a grizzly bear autopsy.
In the summer of 2019 I received some preserved tissue samples from a grizzly bear that had been caught in…
CWHC performs necropsy on rare whale at AVC
On December 11, pathologists, students, and staff from the CWHC and AVC performed a necropsy on a rare Cuvier’s Beaked…
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Mammals
Quebec
Rabies
Surveillance
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Urban Wildlife
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Cas de rage (de la chauve-souris) chez une moufette rayée au Québec
Suite à la documentation d’un cas de rage du raton laveur dans le sud du Québec en 2006, un programme…