a) Wildlife disease investigation manual

b) Directory of wildlife health expertise c) Information specialist Disease updates: Ontario - Lyme disease Atlantic - Rabies in foxes - Encephalitis in cormorants - Carbofuran poisoning - Impaction in geese - Trauma in a right whale Western/Northern - Salmonellosis in pine siskins parvovirus in coyotes Quebec - Pathology of beluga whales - Heartworm in wild canids United States, NWHRC - Avian pox in swans - Histomoniasis in swans

a) Residents in wildlife pathology

b) Rabies in Canadian wildlife: - Distribution of Rabies in North America; Ontario Rabies Research Unit; Raccoon Rabies Disease Updates: Atlantic - Drowning of herring gull chicks - Antifreeze poisoning in a raccoon - Egg binding in cormorant and gannet - Hatching failure in piping plovers Quebec - Salmonellosis in ring-billed gulls Ontario - Lead poisoning of swans - Pesticide poisoning of birds - Yersiniosis in a beaver - Botulism in waterfowl Western/Northern - Mycotoxins in waterfowl - Anthrax in bison - Duck plague - Phorate poisoning in harriers

a) CCWHC Headquarters Secretary

b) Newcastle disease in cormorants

c) Rabies update: First case in PEI; Rabies in bats

d) New viral disease of lagomorphs in Europe

e) Investigation of pesticide poisoning

f) Hantavirus in North America Disease Updates: Atlantic -Mortality in Leach's storm-petrels - Common loon mortality - Verminous pneumonia in red foxes Quebec - Strychnine poisoning in grackles - Leptospirosis in a raccoon - Great horned owls and porcupines Ontario - Tick species near Thunder Bay - Mercury poisoning: loons, eagle - Parvovirus in raccoons Western/Northern - Phorate poisoning in Yukon wildlife - Avian cholera in Manitoba

a) Wildlife pathologists at WCVM & OVC

b) Snowy owl mortalities

c) Duck plague outbreak in New York state Disease Updates: Atlantic – Bat rabies in red foxes - Adenoviral encephalitis in a red fox - Carbofuran poisoning of gulls - Nematode infection of a moose in Nfld. Quebec - Lead poisoning of blue jays - Adrenal lesions in beluga whales - Tumors in hawks Ontario - Winter mortality in birds in Ontario - Lead poisoning in waterfowl - Mange in wolves, coyotes and foxes Western/Northern Region - Crop impaction in Canada geese - Mysterious deaths of black-tailed prairie dogs.

a) Disease conditions in game animals

b) Hantavirus in British Columbia

c) Canine distemper in new hosts Disease Updates: Atlantic - Avian cholera and predation in eiders - Drowning of northern gannets - Fetal mummification in beaver Quebec - Oral papilloma in white suckers - Tyzzer's disease in muskrats - Hepatic carcinoma in Atlantic Tomcod - Intestinal adenocarcinoma in beluga Ontario - Botulism in ring-billed gulls - Lead poisoning in loons Western/Northern - Tiger salamander mortality - Botulism outbreaks in Alberta waterfowl - Waterfowl mortality in Saskatchewan - Carbofuran poisoning in askatchewan.

a) Ecology of waterfowl botulism

b) Responses to the Questionnaire to readers

c) Mycoplasma gallisepticum in house finches Disease updates: Atlantic - Unusual observations of harp seals and hooded seals - Morbillivirus infection (canine distemper) in a bobcat -Cerebral nematodiasis in a bobcat Quebec - Stranding of two bottlenose whales - Parasitic cataracts in St. Lawrence River fish - Ruptured pulmonary aneurysm in a beluga Ontario - Tularemia in beavers - Ring-billed gulls - False Duck Island - Lead poisoning in loons - Salmonella and Campylobacter in gulls Western/Northern - Mortality patterns in orphaned harbour seals - Effects of vomitoxin on ducks.

a) Budget cuts and the wildlife health centre

b) Some common diseases of fresh-water fish

c) Avian botulism workshop Disease Updates: Atlantic - Mortality of common terns in Kouchibouguac National Park Quebec - Salt poisoning in white-winged crossbills - Prevalence of raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) in Québec - Massive amphibian and fish mortality in Mauricie after a sulphuric acid spill - Intentional poisoning of snow buntings by Carbofuran Ontario - Conjuctivitis in house finches - Collisions of migrating birds with office towers - Raccoons Western/Northern - Pesticide poisonings in eagles - Tularemia in muskrats and beaver - Lead poisoning in eagles

a) National Loon Survey, 1996

b) Waterfowl Die-off in Mexico

c|) Newcastle Disease in Double-crested Cormorants - Summer, 1995

d) Northward March of Raccoon Rabies - Update

e) Rabbit Viral Hemorrhagic Disease on the Loose in Australia Disease updates: Atlantic - Verminous pneumonia in Red Foxes - Common loons: Complex causes of mortality Quebec - Parvovirus in raccoons - Giardia in Volumees - Beluga whales in the St. Lawrence Esturay Ontario - Insecticide poisoning in robins - Emaciated great horned owls - Parvovirus and trichinosis in urban raccoons Western/Northern - Botulism at Pakowki Lake, 1995 - The case of the killer cookies: Apparent chocolate poisoning in gulls - Unusual mortality of Franklin's gulls in Saskatchewan - Pelican deaths caused by storm - Pesticide poisonings in eagles - update.

a) News from the CCWHC

b) Surveillance of Wildlife Diseases

c) Giant Liver Fluke in Banff National Park, AB Disease updates: Atlantic - Lungworm infection in wild canids on PEI - Fatal infection with E. rangiferi in caribou Quebec - Cnemidocoptic mange in a red-winged black bird - Tumours in fish from Quebec rivers Ontario - Fatal trematode infection in migrating tundra swans - Overwintering mortality in greater scaup on the Niagara River - Strychnine poisoning in a gray wolf Western/Northern -- Mortality in northern fulmars in the Pacific Northwest - Spongiform encephalopathy in a farmed elk - botulism at Pakowki Lake

a) News from the CCWHC

b) New Diagnostic Tools

c) Hook Lake Wood Bison Recovery Project - Progress Report, July, 1996 Disease Updates: Atlantic - Conjunctivitis in cormorants in PEI - Tularemia in snowshoe hares, Nova Scotia - Seasonal mortality of terns in Kouchibouguac National Park, NB Quebec - Belugas from the S. Lawrence Estuary - Secondary Tyzzer's disease in a raccoon infected with canine distemper Ontario -- Diazinon poisoning in geese - Newcastle disease in cormorants - Herpesvirus in owls - Predator attacks Western/Northen - Botulism - 1996 - Winter mortality in Peace River Region ungulates - Diazonin poisoning of wigeon

a) News from the CCWHC

b) Newcastle Disease in Cormorants, California, USA - May/97

c) Chronic Wasting Disease of Wild Deer Disease Reports: Atlantic - Salmonellosis in herons, gannet - Probable Newcaslte Disease in a cormorant - Neoplasm in eiders - Birthing death in a harbour porpoise Quebec - Low prevalence of neoplasia in St. Lawrence River eels - Mortality at a bird feeder - Strychnine poisoning of a peregrine falcon Ontario - Suspected teflon toxicosis in songbirds - Suspected avitrol poisoning of non-target species Western/Northern - Forensic (medico-legal) examinations - Mortality of porpoises in British Columbia - Predator attacks in British Columbia - Spring botulism