While usually a healthy experience for the dogs, the day care environment, with dozens of pets mingling, contributed to
an epidemic of dog flu in Chicago that is spreading in the Midwest, experts say.
Not exact matches
When we first meet them, they're lamenting their predicament as outcasts from human society — ejected by the
dog - hating authorities after an
epidemic of canine
flu — and tussling over a sack
of maggot - infested food which drops from the sky.
The setting is a future Japan, where a canine
flu epidemic sees all
of Megasaki's
dogs exiled to Trash Island by cat - devoted Mayor Kobayashi.
Before I started researching
dog flu for this assignment, I hadn't heard
of the April 2015 outbreak in the Midwest (I'm writing this in May), which appears to be quite serious and now has some people crying «
epidemic.»
There is a lot
of misinformation and fear about this disease in
dogs especially with the recent human and swine
flu epidemics.
«There are outbreaks
of dog flu right now in the New York metropolitan area and near San Antonio, Texas, and other states have reported
epidemics throughout the year.
Over the past few months TV stations and newspapers have been full
of warnings about the canine
flu epidemic, especially in cities like Chicago, where they said 1,500
dogs got the
flu in one outbreak.
The two companies who make
dog flu vaccines are also providing lots
of information about the
epidemic.