Dr. Jane
December 30, 2022
Some ice-stranded grebes and fox kits with avian flu are just some of the cases that kept wildlife rescue workers at the Medicine River Wildlife Center hopping in 2022. But all-in-all, this was a pretty good year at the Spruce View-area centre, says executive director Carol Kelly. She was heartened to see that the resolution rate for sick or injured …
In mid-February, the owners of a backyard flock in Suffolk County, NY, noticed two guinea hens and three of their chickens were sick; three days later, the birds were dead. Within five hours of getting a swab off the birds’ airways, the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory determined it was New York state’s first case of a deadly strain …
Dr. Jane
September 20, 2022
Laila Proença encourages clinicians to learn how to sedate avian patients so they can perform a physical exam and provide the same standard of care as dogs and cats Laila Proença, DVM, PhD, MV, MSc, DACZM shares advice on avian medicine from her session at Fetch dvm360® Conference in Kansas City. The following is a partial transcript of the video. …
A wave of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, or “bird flu”) that began on Feb. 9 with an infected commercial flock of turkeys in Indiana has resulted in the depopulation of millions of birds and helped drive up the price for chicken, eggs and other products. In Illinois, HPAI was discovered in a flock of wild Canadian geese in March. …
A central Alberta wildlife center is caring for four young foxes, two of which are on the mend after contracting avian flu. Staff at the Medicine River Wildlife Center south of Red Deer say they’re starting to see more scavengers needing treatment, and suspect it’s because the animals are eating carcasses of birds that died from avian flu. The organization’s …
Some shaky, lethargic birds being brought to the Medicine River Wildlife Center this spring are beyond help. So far, about 20 feathered creatures — from waterfowl to raptors, crows and other corvids — have been diagnosed with avian flu. And all of them had to be put down as “there is no point having them suffer,” said Carol Kelly, executive …
WILLMAR — New confirmations of avian flu in Minnesota bring the number of infection sites to 34, including the sixth site in Kandiyohi County and the first reported site in Yellow Medicine County. According to the state Board of Animal Health, H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed Tuesday and announced Wednesday in five additional commercial poultry operations, and one …
events ExoticsCon 2021, Aug. 28-Sept. 2, 2021, Nashville, Tennessee Awards dr Yvonne van Zeeland TJ Lafeber Avian Practitioner Awarddr Yvonne van Zeeland (Utrecht ’04), Utrecht, Netherlands. A diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine in avian medicine and small mammal medicine, Dr. van Zeeland serves as an assistant professor and is co-chief of the Division of Zoological Medicine at …
NASHVILLE – The state veterinarian is announcing that commercial poultry farms in Obion County that were part of a control zone to monitor for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) are no longer restricted. “Despite numerous detections across the US this year, HPAI has not been detected in a domestic Tennessee poultry flock to this point and we aim to keep …
