Membership of the WeCAHN Equine Network includes veterinary practitioners, laboratory diagnosticians, veterinary college researchers, and provincial ministry staff including veterinary epidemiologists.

WeCAHN Podcast: WeCAHN Equine Health Update: Strangles Risk and Prevention in Western Canada

Dr. Ashley Whitehead, a large animal internal medicine specialist at the University of Calgary’s faculty of veterinary medicine, reviews recent disease patterns of equine strangles infections in western Canada and the most effective biosecurity strategies to protect your horses. Equine strangles, a bacterial infection known as Streptococcus equi subspecies equi, is of concern to anyone who shows, trains, breeds, transports or travels with their horses.

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Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System Equine Network LINK

Equine Disease Communications Center LINK

Equine Guelph Biosecurity Risk Calculator LINK

Following are collections of documents from the WeCAHN information library in the areas of equine emerging issues, infographics and short summaries, and international equine surveillance and research.

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