Recently, the staff at Animal Hospital of North Asheville has been getting questions from some of our pet owners about a new
dog virus called canine influenza.
Recently, we've been receiving questions from some of our pet owners about a new
dog virus called canine influenza.
Not exact matches
The name of the rat that harbours the
virus that causes lassa fever is
called multimammate rat (bcos it has many nipples like all these local street
dogs after delivery).
-- Lethargy If you have any questions regarding the influenza
virus, suspect your
dog (or cat) may have symptoms or would like to schedule an appointment for the vaccinations with one of our technicians, please
call Roscoe Village Animal Hospital at 773-549-3131.
One of the manufacturers of Parvo Supplements offers an excellent book that you can download on the
virus called Protect Your
Dog From Parvo.
This highly contagious and, for some
dogs, potentially serious respiratory infection is
called canine influenza
virus H3N2, or CIV H3N2 for short.
Since the new
virus,
called canine parvovirus, appeared to be a mutated version of the feline panleukopenia
virus, a few veterinarians began to vaccinate
dogs with that cat vaccine, with some success.
Canine distemper, which is also known as Carre's disease and was once
called hard pad disease, is a highly contagious
virus that primarily affects young
dogs, both domesticated and wild, between the ages of 2 and 6 months.
Officially
called the canine influenza
virus infection,
dog flu is an infectious disease that occurs in the respiratory tree of all canine breeds.
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Dogs and Puppies Commonly
called Kennel Cough, this
virus causes an extremely contagious upper respiratory infection.
In most cases,
dogs that are infected with the
virus do not develop the disease (
called asymptomatic infection).
The United States needs to stop importing so
called rescue
dogs as this is where the
virus came from.
Dog Health Distemper (also
called Canine Distemper) is a
virus that is spread through the air as well as by bodily fluids such as nasal discharge and urine.
The so -
called Chicago
dog flu has nothing to do with Chicago, except that this strain,
called H3N2, began in Chicago (in the U.S.) and is now living in the environment (it's endemic in the Windy City), but
dog flu, also known as canine influenza
virus (CIV), is all over the country.
During the past few years there have been outbreaks of a severe new flu
virus in dogs called Canine Influenza Virus (
virus in
dogs called Canine Influenza
Virus (
Virus (CIV).
The process uses an engineering technique
called reserve genetics and allows scientists to remove a protein from both flu
viruses, weakening them considerably, but still promoting an immune system response in the
dogs that won't make them sick.
Experts say this strain of the
virus,
called H3N2, was first seen in Asia but only recently appeared in the U.S., meaning
dogs in this country are highly vulnerable.
Which I found kind of hard to understand, since as far as I knew, canine influenza was just one of many bacteria and
viruses that cause the
dog version of the human cold, what we mostly
call «kennel cough.»
Dog flu (also
called canine influenza
virus or CIV) is currently active in 11 states.