Alveolar Hydatid Disease in a Chipmunk
Echinococcus multilocularis is a small (3-5 mm) tapeworm found in the intestinal tract of infected canines, including foxes, coyotes and…
Necropsy of a Cuvier’s Beaked Whale
CWHC Atlantic and students of the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) recently had the rare opportunity to perform a necropsy on…
Snake Fungal Disease Found in Ontario, Canada
Disease now confirmed in at least 16 states in the U.S.A. and one province in Canada In mid-March 2015 an…
Snowy Owl Update – CWHC Quebec
For the third winter in a row, an unusually high number of snowy owls have been submitted for postmortem examination…
A Wolf’s Tale
It isn’t every day that a wildlife submission comes to the CWHC with the lesions already discovered. But this was…
Hermaphrodism in a beluga whale
The carcass of a large beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas), weighing more than 880 kg, was submitted on May 27 at…
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis septicemia in a striped skunk
In late January, 2015 the SPCA was called to remove an adult male skunk from a residential yard in Vancouver…