Category: Western/Northern

Parasites / Uncategorized / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2024-11-29

Besnoitia tarandi in caribou: “I‘ve got you under my skin”

“I’ve got you under my skin” a catchy song from Frank Sinatra is also an accurate way to describe Besnoitia tarandi in caribou. This microscopic parasite forms small cysts that look like bumps in...

Saskatchewan / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2024-09-09

The value of a closer look when cause of death is known

A closer look helped detect zoonotic pathogens in urban hares. The life of a wild animal isn’t easy. Find enough food, don’t become food, don’t get injured or killed, reproduce! Are all general rules...

Uncategorized / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2024-03-01

CWHC Western/Northern – Meet the Team

CWHC Western Northern has added to our team over the past year and wanted to introduce some new faces in addition to highlighting some familiar ones! Our regional node is housed in the Department...

Avian Influenza / Birds / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2023-10-24

Positive Pigeons: Dealing with questionable results in avian influenza surveillance

In the spring of 2022, North America’s wild bird populations experienced an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). We at CWHC Western/Northern tested hundreds of birds submitted to us during the outbreak, which...

Website Rotator / West Nile Virus / Western/Northern

2023-07-28

West Nile virus detected in Saskatchewan wild birds

CWHC Western/Northern has detected West Nile virus in six dead wild birds from Saskatoon and Outlook, Saskatchewan. The first of these, an American Crow, was found sick in early July in a Saskatoon neighborhood....

Bats / Collaborations / News & Announcements / Website Rotator / Western/Northern / White Nose Syndrome

2021-07-20

Confirmed Case of White Nose Syndrome in Northern Manitoba

White Nose Syndrome (WNS) – a fatal fungal infection of bats – has been confirmed in four Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) found near Cranberry Portage, Manitoba. This it the furthest northern and western...

News & Announcements / Students / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2021-06-02

More new faces…

Hi! My name is Erynn Buhr and I’m working with CWHC Western/Northern in Saskatoon, SK this summer. I just completed my first year of the DVM program at WCVM, I’m interested in pathology and...

Collaborations / Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Saskatchewan / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2021-01-21

Why did the moose drink the water? Death at a prairie dugout.

In late September of 2020, three moose were reported dead in a dugout in rural Saskatchewan. The moose had been seen alive in the area two days prior by the renter of the land....

Birds / Diagnostic Highlights / Saskatchewan / Surveillance / Trauma / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2020-11-02

Bird Strikes and the Discovery of an Unusual Vireo: The Perils and Insights of Fall Migration

By now, fall migration has largely wrapped up in the Western/Northern region. Migration presents a host of dangers as birds run the gauntlet from their Canadian breeding grounds to their wintering grounds in the...

Diagnostic Highlights / Mammals / Pathology Notes / Saskatchewan / Website Rotator / Western/Northern

2020-07-17

Beware the porcupine! A case of misadventure in a young mountain lion.

CWHC Western/Northern recently received the carcass of a juvenile mountain lion from southwest Saskatchewan that fell ill after eating a porcupine, quills and all. The cub was euthanized after it was found not moving...