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9th Annual Zoonotic Diseases Symposium

The 9th Annual Zoonotics Symposium was held in Vancouver, November 24, 2009 and hosted jointly by the BC Centre for Disease Control and the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Animal Health Centre. Click on the presentations below to view the PDF versions of the slides or abstracts. Please remember that the speaking points are not available, and caution should be used in understanding the material.

• Opening remarks:
1. Dr. Muhammad Morshed - Highlights of 2009

• WNV:
2. Dave Roth - West Nile Virus in BC: the late arrival (Abstract)
3. Jo Young - West Nile Virus - The birds and the B cells (Abstract)
4. Nicola Marsden-Haug - West Nile Virus surveillance in Washington State

• Ticks:
5. Jack Teng - Risk perception and the adoption of protective behaviours against ticks and tick-borne diseases in the South Okanagan
6. Stefan Iwasawa - A pilot study to inventory tick species, tick distribution and the presence of an emerging zoonotic pathogen (Borrelia burgdorferi), on Vancouver Island

• Avian Influenza:
7. Dr. Vicki Bowes - BC's role in the National Wild Bird Influenza Surveillance Program
8. Dr. Bill Cox - Notifiable avian influenza, BC 2009 – “Oh no, not again!”

• Zoonotic Wildlife Diseases
9. Dr. Helen Schwantje - “Would you eat this?”

• Pathogenic E. coli Outbreak:
10. Mark Ritson - Outbreak investigation - EHO perspective
11. Dr. Mira Leslie - The ecology of E.coli O157
12. Dr. Linda Hoang - PFGE ….and methods for typing strains of shiga-toxin producing E.coli in outbreaks

• Beluga Whale Surveillance:
13. Dr. Stephen Raverty - A health assessment of hunter harvested Beluga in the Western Arctic

• Sentinel Animal Health Surveillance:
14. Linda Vrbova - Using sentinels for surveillance in agricultural animals and wildlife in British Columbia: the EZ Surveillance Project

• H1N1:
15. Dr. Martin Petric - The H1N1 pandemic
16. Dr. Jane Pritchard - H1N1: Zoonotic or anthroponotic?

• Murine virus:
17. Dr. David Patrick - XMRV - Introduction to a murine derived retrovirus and its association with human illness

Last Updated: December 8, 2010