Category: British Columbia

British Columbia / Vancouver Rat Project / Website Rotator

2023-08-29

A Human Outbreak of Shigellosis Reveals the Variety of Infectious Organisms Carried in Wild Urban Rat Feces

A rat darts down your grimy city sidewalk. While rats have notoriously spread the Black Death across Medieval Europe, what other infectious organisms do rats carry that can make you sick? In 2021, there...

British Columbia / Website Rotator

2021-08-04

A microscopic mystery infecting wild British Columbian bears

In 2008, the death of a captive black bear drew the attention of wildlife researchers at the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative British Columbia (CWHC BC). The bear had extensive liver damage caused by a...

Bats / British Columbia / News & Announcements / Students / Website Rotator

2021-06-16

More new faces to introduce…

Hi! I’m Imara Beattie, a DVM student at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. I’m working at the B.C. Node of the CWHC this summer under the supervision of Dr. Chelsea Himsworth and Dr....

British Columbia / Education / News & Announcements / Students / Website Rotator

2021-05-13

My CWHC Experience.

Hello! I’m Harveen Atwal and I’m a fourth-year Biology student at the University of British Columbia. Over the past 9 months I have been working with the BC Node of the CWHC under the...

British Columbia / CWD / Mammals / News & Announcements / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2020-07-20

B.C. CWD Surveillance – Mandatory Submission of Mule Deer and White-Tailed Deer Heads in the Highest Risk Area.

In 2019/2020, the B.C. Wildlife Health Program tested 1260 cervid heads for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) with no positive results. Species sampled were White-tailed Deer, Mule Deer, Black-tailed Deer, Moose, Roosevelt Elk, Rocky Mountain...

Birds / British Columbia / Collaborations / Poisoning / Toxicity / Website Rotator

2020-04-20

Lead Poisoning in Trumpeter Swans in British Columbia

As part of an ongoing collaboration with the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the BC Ministry of Agriculture examines swan carcasses that are suspected to have...

British Columbia / CWD / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-08-22

“Bring Out Your Heads”: Hunters are the First Line of Defense Against a Deadly Disease Affecting Deer

I stare at the carefully folded package on the kitchen table. Neat straight edges in the paper wrapping protect the contents inside. Every year, my partner’s father gifts us this way with deer sausage....

British Columbia / Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Notes from the Field / Students / Uncategorized / Website Rotator / Whales

2019-06-17

Whale of a Time….

Having been born and raised on the prairies, I have never seen a whale. That is, until I began working as a summer student at the CWHC branch of British Columbia. In the first...

Avian Influenza / British Columbia / News & Announcements / Research / Students / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-06-13

More Summer Students…….

Delaney Schofer is working at the British Columbia branch of the CWHC this summer. She has completed her first year at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine and is interested in wildlife health and...

British Columbia / Diagnostic Highlights / Pathology Notes / Poisoning / Toxicity / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-05-30

Secondary Barbiturate Toxicity in Bald Eagles and a Red-Tailed Hawk

Secondary toxicity is a relatively common occurrence in free-ranging carnivores and scavengers, particularly in raptors. Secondary toxicity had been documented in a variety of wildlife in BC, including barbiturate toxicity in eagles (Hayes, 1988)....

Category: British Columbia

A Human Outbreak of Shigellosis Reveals the Variety of Infectious Organisms Carried in Wild Urban Rat Feces

A microscopic mystery infecting wild British Columbian bears

More new faces to introduce…

My CWHC Experience.

B.C. CWD Surveillance – Mandatory Submission of Mule Deer and White-Tailed Deer Heads in the Highest Risk Area.

Lead Poisoning in Trumpeter Swans in British Columbia

“Bring Out Your Heads”: Hunters are the First Line of Defense Against a Deadly Disease Affecting Deer

Whale of a Time….

More Summer Students…….

Secondary Barbiturate Toxicity in Bald Eagles and a Red-Tailed Hawk

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