71st International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man
The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative and Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses, at the Ontario Veterinary College, are co-hosting the…
Big game meat consumption and lead exposure
A new study was recently published by a team of scientists from the Institut national de santé publique du Québec…
Bat Week Day 5: Dispelling bat Myths
Attitudes toward bats seem to be improving these days, but bat myths often stand in the way of peaceful human-bat…
Bat Week Day 4: What can I do?
What can I do to help? This is a question that enters many people’s minds when they hear of the…
Bat Week Day 3: Bat contributions to science
Bats are important to us in so many ways. In addition to their critical ecological role as pollinators and insectivores,…
Bat Week Day 2: The many faces of bats
Bats are among the most diverse group of mammals and represent about 20% of all mammalian species. Worldwide more than…
Welcome to Bat Week
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a devastating fungal disease that has killed over 6 million bats in Eastern North America since…
CWHC BC Welcomes Dr. Glenna McGregor!
The BC node of the CWHC would like to welcome their new diagnostic pathologist, Dr. Glenna McGregor! Glenna graduated from…
Bat Blitz 2014 Revisited
North American bat populations have been under extreme pressure in recent years. White-nose syndrome has devastated populations of several species…
Hands-on wildlife experience with CWHC Ontario/Nunavut
This year was the first that the Ontario Veterinary College offered 4th year students an opportunity to do a rotation…