In this issue:

AHL New Tests Developed in 2025 [2]

Update from the Director [3]

Specimen Reception Update  - sending out samples for testing [4]

OAHN update - March 2026  [5]

Staff highlights [6]

Selected Zoonotic pathogrens and diseases from Ontario identified at the AHL in 2025 [7]

Ruminants

Streptoccal arthritis in an adult goat  [8]

Disseminated blastomycosis in a llama [9]

Swine

Two swine OAHN projects are currently accepting samples [10]

Branching out to the suburbs - Hepatoboliary ascariasis in a Kunekube piglet    [11]

Avian/fur/exotic

Chick Fung-EYE: You never know where it will go  [12]

Hemorrhagic pneumonia in mink due to Pseudomonas aeruginose   [13]

Equine 

Strep equi testing [14]

Companion animals

Uveodermatologic syndrome (Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada-like syndrome) in a young Samyed [15]