Testing of Select Wild Mustelids for SARS-CoV-2
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been concern about what animal species might be at risk of…
The friendly face on the phone: Ontario/Nunavut’s new communications coordinator.
We’d like to introduce Maria Alexandrou! She is the new communications coordinator with the Ontario/Nunavut region. She is responsible for…
Canine distemper virus: an ongoing concern for wildlife in Ontario.
Canine distemper virus (CDV) is highly contagious and can cause a severe, often fatal, disease that affects many different body…
Swollen Muzzle in a White-Tailed Deer.
White-tailed deer are one of the more interesting and challenging species that we have the opportunity to work with. The…
Summer Students!
Introducing CWHC ON/NU’s summer students… Tonia von Hugo Hello, my name is Tonia von Hugo and I am a 3rd…
Diagnostic Highlights
Graduate Students
Mammals
Ontario/Nunavut
Pathology Notes
Uncategorized
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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…
Caribou
Collaborations
Education
Northern Canada
Ontario/Nunavut
Parasites
Teaching/Training
Uncategorized
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Workshops
Caribou workshop in Arviat, Nunavut
If you had told me three years ago that I’d be spending a week in Nunavut educating school groups, members…
Diagnostic Highlights
Ontario/Nunavut
Ranavirus
Reptiles and Amphibians
Uncategorized
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Ranavirus associated mortality event in frogs in Ontario
Amphibians are uncommon submissions at the CWHC in Ontario, typically because dead amphibians are small and semiaquatic and likely to…
Birds
Ontario/Nunavut
Poisoning
Research
Students
Surveillance
Toxicity
Urban Wildlife
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Summer Research Project: Raptors and Rodenticides.
I love urban wildlife, those animals that refuse to let humans remove them from their habitat. Some urban environments seem…
Working with Veterinarians and Vet Clinics to Improve Wildlife Health Surveillance in Ontario
The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC) Ontario/Nunavut node has been trying to expand our wildlife disease surveillance program by increasing…