A collaborative network for veterinarians and producers/owners in ON, Canada to detect new and ongoing diseases/issues in animals.
Ontario, Canada
Joined December 2014
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Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) has for the first time been confirmed in dead snowshoe hares in NWT.
Listen to OAHN's Dr. Alex Reid discuss it: creators.spotify.com/pod/pro…
OAHN is providing subsidized RHDV2 testing for domestic rabbits: oahn.ca/resources/rhdv-proje…
#RHDV
In case you missed it, we have published our webinar from last week:
Exploring a Potentially Transmissible Melanoma in Brown Bullhead: A Science Story with Dr. Cheyenne R. Smith
oahn.ca/resources/exploring-…
#Science #OneHealth #FishHealth #aquatics #melanoma
Ontario Equine Disease Alert - Oct 29 2026
Strangles in:
-Wellington County
-District of Algoma
-Brant County
More details and full list of Ontario Equine Disease Alerts here:
oahn.ca/resources/ontario-eq…
#Equine #OntarioHorse #OntarioEquine #HorseHealth #VetMed #EquineVet
Ontario Animal Health Network retweeted
Interested in learning more about One Health?
Register to attend One Health Research Day on Nov. 13!
This annual in-person event is held at the U of G Arboretum Centre and highlights research at the intersection of human, animal & environmental health: ohresearchday.uoguelph.ca
ALT Learn about current research in One Health. The day includes student posters and oral presentations, guest keynote speakers, free entrance and lunch. A QR Code is providing for registering.
Ontario Animal Health Network retweeted
Join us on Wed. Nov. 4, 12:30 for our next One Health seminar featuring Dr. Andrew Peregrine!
He will discuss the parasite Echinococcus multilocularis, which has emerged as a pathogen of dogs & people in Canada.
McLaughlin Library, Room 384 or on Teams: onehealth.uoguelph.ca/one-he…
ALT The title of the seminar is "Emergence of Echinococcus multilocularis (the "fox tapeworm") in Canada. Andrew Peregrine is an associate professor in clinical parasitology, Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College.
The USDA said on Wednesday it confirmed the first detection of flesh-eating parasite New World screwworm in U.S. wildlife in an elk in Pecos County, Texas, while New Mexico authorities separately said they confirmed a case in a beef cow.
ctvnews.ca/health/article/ne…
Ontario Equine Vets and RVTs
LAST CHANCE to fill out our equine practitioners survey. Please take 5 mins to tell us what you've seen in practice over the past 3 months:
uoguelph.eu.qualtrics.com/jf…
Survey closes Oct 24
#EquineVet #HorseVet #OntarioHorse #OntarioEquine #VetMed
Although Shamonda virus has the ability to infect human evidence suggests the risk remains low
"The first reported human infection with Shamonda virus in France has brought renewed attention to a virus detected in European livestock in 2026"
woah.org/en/shamonda-virus-w…
#OneHealth
Ontario Animal Health Network retweeted
Ontario Equine Disease Alert
-Equine Influenza in Wellington County, ON
Details and full list of Ontario Equine Disease Alerts here:
oahn.ca/resources/ontario-eq…
#OntarioEquine #OntarioHorse #HorseVet #VetMed
Ontario Equine Disease Alert
-Equine Influenza in Wellington County, ON
Details and full list of Ontario Equine Disease Alerts here:
oahn.ca/resources/ontario-eq…
#OntarioEquine #OntarioHorse #HorseVet #VetMed
On Oct 20 our OAHN Aquatics Network is hosting a talk by Dr. Cheyenne R. Smith: Exploring a Potentially Transmissible Melanoma in Brown Bullhead: A Science Story
For more details and free registration, please click here: oahn.ca/resources/exploring-…
See you on Tuesday!
#OneHealth
Ontario Equine Vets & RVTs
The Equine Practitioner survey is out, and your contributions help with Ontario equine disease surveillance and health. It takes 5 minutes.
uoguelph.eu.qualtrics.com/jf…
#Equine #OntarioEquine #OntarioHorse #HorseHealth
Free educational series from CAHSS:
The Smallholder Webinar Series is designed for Canadian smallholders and producers working with small ruminants, swine, and poultry/small flocks.
1.5 hours of RACE-approved CE credits available for each webinar.
cahss.ca/cahss-networks/smal…
Ontario Animal Health Network retweeted
Part 6 of our vaccination series: how many vaccines at once are too many?
Short answer: There's no practical limit. It's been estimated that the body can response to thousands of vaccines at once, so the combinations we would use in animals (and ppl) are not an issue.
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Ontario Animal Health Network retweeted
The problem is, we often go from expert (evidence-light) opinion to ingrained (thou shalt do this) with no steps in between.
Here's a link to a commentary about the need for study of this important (and vexing) topic:
wormsandgermsblog.com/2026/1…
Ontario Equine Disease Alert:
Equine Infectious Anemia in Tay Valley Township
More details, full list of Ontario Equine Disease alerts available here: oahn.ca/resources/ontario-eq…
#Equine #OntarioEquine #OntarioHorse #EquineVet #HorseVet
Ontario Equine Vets and RVTs - please tell us what you are seeing in practice!
The latest equine practitioner survey is out, and your contributions help with Ontario equine disease surveillance and health.
uoguelph.eu.qualtrics.com/jf…
Ontario Animal Health Network retweeted
A new series of WormsAndGermsBlog posts about vaccination issues in dogs and cats.
Part 1: What do do with an animal that is overdue.
TLDR: Just vaccinate. While the approach has often been to 'restart the series' there's no immunological basis for that.
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Ontario Equine Disease Alert:
Equine Infectious Anemia in Perth East, ON
More details, full list of Ontario Equine Disease alerts available here: oahn.ca/resources/ontario-eq…
#Equine #OntarioEquine #OntarioHorse #EquineVet #HorseVet #PerthON
Ontario Animal Health Network retweeted
A newly revised Avian Influenza Dashboard for Canada has been released.
It brings together information that includes historical outbreaks, wild bird observations, poultry density, weather, wetland distribution, land-cover data, satellite imagery etc.: avianfludashboard.ca/dashboa…
ALT A portion of a map of Canada showing avian influenza outbreaks in the Prairie Provinces.