A letter to CCWHC
In July of this year, Dr Richard Kock told those gathered at the international scientific meeting of the Wildlife Disease…
Food safety of hunter-killed wildlife
Late autumn is hunting season with white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose being the species commonly hunted in Canada.…
Ecological Concern; Diagnostic Challenge: Secondary Rodenticide Toxicity in Predatory Birds
In late April, 2012, an American kestrel found on the railway line was submitted by the local municipality to Western/Northern…
A rabid deer in Minnesota – a reminder for rabies awareness
In early November, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources received reports of a deer that was behaving strangely. It was…
The WildTech Project: At the cutting edge of disease diagnostic technology
Imagine that you are a wildlife veterinarian and that you have been called in to deal with a large die-off…
CCWHC 2011-2012 Annual Report Now Available
The 2011-2012 Annual Report for the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC) is now available online. To request hard copies…
The unpredictable occurrence of Type E botulism in the lower Great Lakes
Although Type E botulism was first recognized as a cause of mortality in fish-eating birds following significant die-offs of common…
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease: Near but not yet here in Ontario
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) is a viral disease of white-tailed deer, transmitted to them by biting midges. It is a…
Suspected cat predation of a northern flicker
This summer a juvenile male yellow-shafted northern flicker was found on a sidewalk in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, injured and unable to…
Ontario research on the blacklegged tick and Lyme disease
During the autumn months, the risk of encountering a blacklegged tick in eastern North America increases. Blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis),…