The latest episode of WormsAndGermsPod is a discussion about ticks and tick-borne diseases in companion animals with our local tick guru, Dr. Katie Clow from the University of Guelph. Find all ou...
https://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2024/10/articles/animals/dogs/tick-talk-with-dr-katie-clow/
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a big problem with a crappy marketing plan. It’s been termed a “silent pandemic,” and it has huge health and financial impacts that are only going to get w...
In some ways, I wonder why there even are recalls for raw pet foods and Salmonella. We know contamination is common, and the contaminated foods that get identified and recalled are presumably a v...
Today, we have a guest post from One Health epidemiologist extraordinaire (and great collaborator) Dr. Katie Clow and extraordinaire-in-training Sydney DeWinter. If you have been following the on...
When mpox (formerly monkeypox) started to surge in Ontario back in 2022, I set up a study to try to look at possible human-to-pet transmission of the causative virus (known as MPXV), because we h...
https://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2024/08/articles/animals/dogs/human-pet-mpox-transmission/
This is really good news – albeit a bit frustrating that we spent so much time working on the issue over the last couple of months, only to have the US CDC largely walk back most of what they a...
UPDATE: Shortly after this was posted, the US CDC walked back most of the requirements discussed below. This post will be left up for the historical record, but please note that the information n...
Our oversubscribed CVMA webinar on the new US dog importation rules coming into effect on August 1 showed just how many questions are still out there about the changes. An FAQ is in the works tha...
UPDATE: Shortly after this was posted, the US CDC walked back most of the requirements discussed below. This post will be left up for the historical record, but please note that the information ...
I spend a lot of time talking to people about leptospirosis in dogs and the risks to people. From a zoonotic disease standpoint, I spend half my time trying to raise awareness of the potential fo...