Western Canadian animal disease updates

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  • Dog;
  • Human;
  • Mammalian (Non-domestic, other)
  • Terrestrial
  • 6 to 15 premises/locations
  • Zoonotic
Start Date
Mar/30/2013
End Date
Mar/31/2023

Alveolar echinococcus in Alberta

Promed 22 June 2021
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Seventeen cases of human AE, aged 19–78 years, nine females, were diagnosed between 2013 and 2020: all definitely or probably acquired in Alberta. Greater urbanization of coyotes, the predominant definitive host of Em in Alberta, and growing numbers of immune suppressed individuals in the human population may lead to increasing recognition of AE in North America.