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July 29, 2022
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In late winter and spring 2021-22, a continental outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) involving a North American strain of H5N1 swept across Canada and the USA. This preliminary...
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June 13, 2022
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This annual report recounts the progress made in monitoring respiratory disease in Alberta’s bighorn sheep populations.
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December 6, 2021
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This science support document provides a summary of biological and policy rationale for the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) and bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) areas disease buffer wildlife...
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November 15, 2021
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The Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae bacterium can cause a highly-contagious and fatal pneumonia in wild sheep, but rarely causes severe illness in domestic sheep and goats. This fact sheet explains why...
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November 12, 2021
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This fact sheet provides information on legworms, which are long thin nematodes that can live beneath the skin of moose and deer, most often between the skin and the muscles and tendons of the...
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November 12, 2021
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Contagious ecthyma is a disease that can appear in wild populations of bighorn sheep and mountain goats in Alberta where they overlap with current or previous use by domestic stock. This fact...
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October 29, 2021
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Informational fact sheet regarding roundworms found in bears. Bear roundworms are large,and dramatic when you see them. But they pose no problem for bears or any other species.
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October 29, 2021
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Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a highly contagious virus associated with gastrointestinal disease in wild and domestic canids (wolves, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs). This fact sheet provides...
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August 1, 2020
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Information for hunters about skull and sinus tumours in bighorn sheep, how to recognize signs and symptoms, and how to support bighorn sheep disease monitoring and testing in Alberta.
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August 1, 2020
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This brochure provides instructions for hunters on how to collect nasal swab samples from harvested bighorn sheep. This sample collection is part of Alberta’s efforts to track potential pneumonia...