Mapping and Habitat Suitability Under Current and Mid-Century Climate in the Pacific Northwest (BC and WA).

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States and Canada. The primary vector for the causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, in the Pacific Northwest is the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes pacificus. Using active tick surveillance data from British Columbia, Canada, and Washington State, USA, habitat suitability models using MaxEnt (maximum entropy) were developed for to predict its current and mid-century geographic distributions.

Passive tick surveillance and detection of in ticks from companion animals in British Columbia: 2018 to 2020.

Objective: The present study was designed to identify tick species and determine prevalence of infection in ticks obtained from companion animals in British Columbia.

Animals And Samples: Ticks were submitted by British Columbia veterinarians from client-owned companion animals over a 31-month period.

Procedure: Each tick was identified and PCR testing for undertaken on all species identified by the Zoonotic Diseases and Emerging Pathogens Section of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory (BCCDC PHL).

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS OF THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES FOR THE SURVEILLANCE OF AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUSES IN WILD WATERBIRDS.

Wild waterbirds are reservoir hosts for avian influenza viruses (AIV), which can cause devastating outbreaks in multiple species, making them a focus for surveillance efforts. Traditional AIV surveillance involves direct sampling of live or dead birds, but environmental substrates present an alternative sample for surveillance. Environmental sampling analyzes AIV excreted by waterbirds into the environment and complements direct bird sampling by minimizing financial, logistic, permitting, and spatial-temporal constraints associated with traditional surveillance.