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Birds / Citizen Science / Collaborations / Ontario/Nunavut / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-08-12

Working with Veterinarians and Vet Clinics to Improve Wildlife Health Surveillance in Ontario

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC) Ontario/Nunavut node has been trying to expand our wildlife disease surveillance program by increasing our ability to receive specimens from the general public. The main factor limiting submissions...

Bat Monthly / White Nose Syndrome

2019-08-08

Bat Monthly / Chauves-souris Mensuelles August 2019

Featured story Recovery Plan for Québec’s Non-migratory Bat Species Québec Bat recovery team, May 2019 White nose syndrome, an infection caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, arrived in the Québec province in 2010. Since...

Bats / Rabies

2019-08-05

Bats and Rabies: Separating Fact from Fiction

This past month has seen an influx of news reports from across the country concerning bats and rabies, like these news reports from: British Columbia, New Brunswick, and Ontario. These serve as a reminder...

Atlantic / Birds / Citizen Science / Diagnostic Highlights / Parasites / Quebec / Trichomonosis / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-07-31

Trichomonosis…..it’s back!

Trichomonosis has once again returned to eastern Canada this summer. The disease is caused by the protozoan parasite Trichomonas gallinae which infects the mucosal lining of the oral cavity and upper digestive tract of...

Mammals / Parasites / Quebec / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-07-23

Gale notoedrique chez un écureuil gris

Un cas de gale notoedrique a été diagnostiqué chez un écureuil gris à Montréal au mois de juin. Cet animal était débilité, maigre et présentait une perte importante de poils. La gale notoedrique est...

Mammals / Parasites / Quebec / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-07-23

Notoedric mange in an Eastern gray squirrel

A case of notoedric mange was diagnosed in an Eastern gray squirrel in Montreal in June. This animal was debilitated, emaciated, and showed a significant hair loss. Notoedric mange is a parasitic disease caused...

Atlantic / Mammals / News & Announcements / Quebec / Strandings / Website Rotator / Whales

2019-07-19

Mortalité de baleines noires de l’Atlantique Nord

Le Golfe du Saint-Laurent est un endroit achalandé. Est traversé par de multiples routes de trafic maritime et devient de plus en plus un site essentiel à l’alimentation de la baleine noire de l’Atlantique...

Atlantic / Mammals / News & Announcements / Quebec / Strandings / Uncategorized / Website Rotator / Whales

2019-07-19

Update on the North Atlantic right whale mortalities

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is a busy place. It is crossed by multiple lines of heavy international shipping traffic, and now is increasingly becoming the summer home for the critically endangered North Atlantic...

Atlantic / Collaborations / Mammals / Notes from the Field / Quebec / Website Rotator / Whales

2019-06-19

Update on North Atlantic Right Whale necropsy

On June 7, 2019, teams from Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, Atlantic and Quebec nodes, participated in a necropsy on an North Atlantic Right Whale on Miscou Island, NB. The juvenile male right whale had...

Bat Monday / White Nose Syndrome

2019-06-17

The last Bat Monday / Le dernier Lundi des Chauve-souris 17 June 2019

Dear Bat Monday followers, Following review of our national WNS response program we are working on evolving and improving delivery of national situational awareness on bat health in Canada. As part of this effort...

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...