Sentences with phrase «like human flu»

Since the dog flu virus spreads just like the human flu virus — through kisses, coughs, sneezes, and touching objects and surfaces that have already been contaminated — public doggy places like kennels, groomers, and pet stores are where your dog is most likely to contract it.

Like human flu, antibiotics may help if bacterial infections make things worse.

Like the human flu, canine influenza is spread through the air via coughing and sneezing from infected dogs.

Like the human flu, treatment consists mostly of supportive care, such as medication or IV fluids, while the virus runs its course.

Just like human flu vaccines, the H3N2 CIV vaccine may not completely prevent infection but will make it less likely.

However, much like the human flu vaccine, we found that it would greatly reduce the severity of symptoms if the dog did still contract CIV.

Unless your dog is real young, old, or ill, I think it is just like human flu strains and it will pass.

You should note that canine influenza is not seasonal, like the human flu, and can be contracted year - round.

Just like the human flu virus, the dog flu is an airborne virus that is spread by coughing and sneezing via aerosolized respiratory secretions.

The virus is able to mutate and develop new strains, much like the human flu, making vaccines not always effective.

Just like human flu, canine influenza is highly contagious among dogs.

Like human flu shots, CIV vaccination may not prevent infection 100 %, but it may reduce the severity and duration of illness.

Just like the human flu, dog flu is spread through close contact in highly populated areas such as dog parks, boarding, grooming and day care facilities as well as pet hospitals.

Just like human flu is among humans, Dog Flu is highly contagious among dogs.

Just like human flu vaccines, the H3N2 vaccine may not completely prevent infection, but will make it less likely.

The bad news is how much that $ 100 vaccine costs your dog... especially considering that, just like the human flu, canine influenza is a self limiting, normal illness that, in the vast majority of dogs, amounts to a couple of days of feeling sick.

Thus, it unknown how effective the vaccine will continue to be in future years unless it is updated like the human flu vaccine.

However, like human flu shots, the vaccine for dog flu can not completely prevent the illness but it will help in lowering the chances of it occuring.

Not exact matches

The results of the experiment would suggest that bird flu could potentially mutate to become transmittable between humans like the flu, a scary thought considering the human fatality rate from bird flu when contracted from birds was recorded as 60 percent in 2010.

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

He probably suffered from common human ailments sometimes like a cold and the flu — and maybe even the runs.

If contracted by humans, EEE can produce symptoms ranging from mild flu - like illness to inflammation of the brain, coma and death in about a third of those affected.

Human cases are often asymptomatic or present as a mild flu - like illness.

If contracted by humans, EEE can produce symptoms ranging from a mild flu - like illness to inflammation of the brain, coma and even death in about one third of those affected.

The evolution of the SARS virus — like flu, an RNA virus — is a vivid example of how a pathogen incubated in the markets of Guangdong managed to jump species and adapt to humans.

He says that seeing schizophrenia - like anomalies in the brain of a closely related primate «really enhances the plausibility» of previous research that links flu to fetal brain development in humans.

However, a transition to human specificity could enable H7N9 to circulate among humans, just like other human flu strains that have caused pandemics in the past.

Such an understanding would help demonstrate the inner workings of human cells and ultimately to help combat pathogenic viruses like the flu more effectively.

The study, published online in the Journal of Virology, also highlights the importance of flu virus surveillance — conducting studies like Topham's to see how the flu is changing, what flu mutations are circulating in humans and animals, and how those mutations affect virus function.

Pig studies have taken on a new cachet because of the swine origins of the 2009 A (H1N1) strain that's causing the current pandemic — and the pig flu research community's eerily prescient predictions that something like it was bound to make headway in humans.

But INB found a way to trick spinach (along with Swiss chard and petunias) into producing harmless bits and pieces of common human pathogens that cause diseases like flu and plague (inset).

Using a model of Parkinson's disease in which the toxin MPTP, made famous in book «The Case of the Frozen Addicts,» induces Parkinson's - like symptoms in humans and mice, Dr. Smeyne showed that mice infected with H1N1, even long after the initial infection, had more severe Parkinson's symptoms than those who had not been infected with the flu.

Symptoms in humans have included a flu - like illness, which can progress to pneumonia; headache, high fever, and drowsiness, which can progress to convulsions or coma.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of Brucella melitensis, a relatively obscure bacterium better known in the context of Malta fever, a highly contagious flu - like infection in humans.

In the 1950s, the US military developed artillery shells and bombs armed with a bacterium that causes a debilitating flu - like disease in humans.

Similar damage to the human small intestines might result in incontinence or flu - like symptoms, and may be precancerous.

Teflon surfaces break down and end up in your food and when heated to high temperatures, emit fumes which cause flu - like symptoms in humans (AKA: polymer fume fever) and can be fatal to birds.

In chronic Lyme and associated diseases Olive Leaf Extract (OLE) is an antimicrobial for acute viruses, like the cold and flu viruses, and chronic viral infections like Human Herpes Virus 6 (HHV - 6), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), and Epstein Barr Virus (EBV).

In chronic Lyme and associated diseases Thymic Protein A (Proboost) stimulates the immune system to treat acute viral infections like the cold and flu virus, and chronic viral infections like Human Herpes Virus 6 (HHV - 6), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), and Epstein Barr Virus (EBV).

Like most of the humans, he blames the apes for the simian flu and destroying the planet.

Future pandemic flu outbreaks would be ranked, like hurricanes, on a scale of 1 to 5, and school closures of up to three months would be recommended for more severe outbreaks, according to a planning guide released jointly last week by the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Their nose and their eyes may also manifest a discharge just like humans do whenever they have colds or flu.

A bacterial illness transmitted to dogs, humans and other animals by ticks that causes flu - like symptoms.

Just like human athletes (or humans who have been battling a stomach flu for days), rabbits who are in desperate need of calories may benefit from eating oatmeal.

In humans, the disease can cause flu - like symptoms, but can become life - threatening.

Fever, malaise and non — specific flu - like symptoms are typical for plague in both humans and pets.

Rhinotracheitis is a viral infection that affects cats much like a cold or flu affects humans.

In non-pregnant humans, toxoplasmosis parasites may not cause any symptoms or may cause sore muscles and flu - like symptoms.

For some odd reason she would have a reaction in the middle of the night, just like a human child with cold or flu symptoms — the night time is when her rump liked to party.

Like the flu shot for humans, the vaccine only covers a few of the kennel cough strains that experts think might be in our area this year.