Potential for American Crows to spread infectious prions in the environment
What role do scavengers have on the spread of prion diseases in the environment? A recent study has shown that…
Surveillance for Rodent External Parasites at Sheep River Provincial Park, Alberta.
Rodents often are reservoirs for numerous infectious agents, or pathogens, that can be transmitted from animals to humans. External parasites…
Hepatic sarcocystosis in black bears: an emerging disease in British Columbia?
In July 2008, a mature captive male black bear resident in the lower mainland of the Fraser Valley was submitted…
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…
2012 ASFWB Meeting hosted by CCWHC
The CCWHC Atlantic was honored to be the hosting organization of the 49th annual meeting of the Atlantic Society of…
Mysterious Bluefin Tuna Deaths washing up on the shorelines of Atlantic Canada
In each of the past 3 years the Atlantic regional node of the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC) in…
CCWHC Graduate Student Researches Parasites of Free-Ranging Lemurs in Madagascar.
The 2012 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment qualified the lemurs of Madagascar as the most…
Beluga whale observed in Montreal: 400km upstream of normal range
The presence of a beluga in the Montreal harbour was finally confirmed by photographic documentation. Several reports of people sighting…