Healthy Wildlife

The blog of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative

Monthly Archive: August 2013

Early Type E Botulism Activity 0

Ontario/Nunavut

Early Type E Botulism Activity

Type E Botulism, which has become a more or less annual event on the lower Great Lakes, causing significant avian mortality in most years, is a condition whose prevalence tends to begin late in...

Update: West Nile Virus in Ontario 0

Ontario/Nunavut

Update: West Nile Virus in Ontario

An increased number of telephone reports of dead crows have been received by the CCWHC laboratory in Ontario over the past few weeks.  This has resulted in a number of submissions, many of which...

Rangifer Anatomy Project 0

Alberta

Rangifer Anatomy Project

Caribou and reindeer (Rangifer) are keystone species in the circumpolar north and are critical for the maintenance of healthy northern ecosystems. Many Arctic communities and indigenous culture continue to depend on caribou and reindeer...