ACRONYMS
CWD
What is Chronic Wasting Disease?
A
What is a heart?
Species: Elk
The name for an infectious disease that is transmitted between animals and humans.
What is a zoonotic disease?
This raptor species has the highest incidence of rodenticide exposure, as much as 95% of those sampled, as per a recent study.
What are Barred owls?
A young, tenacious Helen Schwantje officially started the B.C. Wildlife Health Program in this year.
What is 1996?
WNS
What is White Nose Syndrome?
B
What are lungs?
Species: Black-tailed deer
This fatal zoonotic disease is rarely detected in people and pets in BC, but can be carried by bats.
What is Rabies?
The obex is a standard sample used for CWD testing in these species.
What are moose, elk, and caribou?
Cait completed her Master’s of Science on this species in the Victoria area.
What are river otters?
WHIS
What is the Wildlife Health Information System?
C
What is a uterus?
Species: Black bear
This zoonotic disease, caused by a Borellia bacteria, is transmitted through tick bites.
What is Lyme Disease?
The species being tested in this video for Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae.
What is bighorn sheep?
Caeley did her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in this country.
What is New Zealand?
HPAI
What is Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza?
D
What is a liver (with flukes)?
Species: Black-tailed deer
This zoonotic disease has been reported in BC in people, horses, and corvids, and is transmitted by mosquitos.
What is West Nile Virus?
Every year, October 31st kicks off the annual surveillance period for a fungus affecting this group of animals.
What are bats?
This member of the Wildlife Health team is known to leave sticky note doodles for her team members.
Who is Maeve?
CWHC
What is the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative?
E
What is the omentum?
Species: Elk
This tapeworm spp. has been reported in wild canids in BC, and can cause cysts in the lungs and brain 5-15 years later in the terminal host (i.e. humans).
What is Echinococcus multilocularis?
This terrestrial mammal has reniculate, or multilobed, kidneys.
What is a bear OR river otter?
This member of the Wildlife Health Program is the official team Easter Bunny.
Who is Shari?