Sentences with phrase «outbreaks of feline»
Town of Niagara, NY (WBEN)- The Niagara SPCA has shut its doors to get control of what they call on their Facebook page a «very contagious outbreak of feline illness.»
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We had such a terrible outbreak of feline respiratory disease last fall that the shelter director had to take 13 sick cats to a volunteer's garage to prevent it from infecting incoming healthy cats.
The shelter is now taking precautions to prevent another outbreak of feline panleukopenia virus and to ensure that cats adopted from the shelter are healthy.
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Feline calicivirus, which causes a respiratory infection in cats, is a strong candidate, he says; «there have been outbreaks of «superhot» strains in vaccinated populations.»
Feline CDV infections have been recorded in captive large felids for some time [13], [14]; however, the importance of the virus as a threat to wild felines was not recognized until an outbreak affecting lions (Panthera leo) in the Serengeti in 1994 [15], during which an estimated 1,000 animals (approximately 30 %) disappeared.
It's a feline housing revolution — and it's helping stop outbreaks of upper respiratory infections in their tracks!
Others have outbreaks that can only be referred to as epidemics that result in the suspension of feline adoptions.
Maddie's Fund has provided University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine with $ 1,032,824 in funding to support their Shelter Medicine Program, including courses, internships, residencies and diagnostic testing and shelter consultative services.Interns work hand - in - hand with veterinarians at Dane County Humane Society, Residents mentor and train at the University's veterinary clinic and thousands of animals have been saved through the diagnostic testing and shelter consultative services for disease outbreaks of Canine Distemper Virus, Canine Parvovirus, Feline Panleukopenia Virus, Canine Respiratory Disease Complex and Feline Respiratory Disease Complex.
During her three - year residency, Hurley investigated and characterized one of the first documented outbreaks of virulent systemic feline calicivirus.
The outbreak in a closed colony was undeniably precipitated by administration of the new feline leukemia vaccine.
But the sudden and devastating outbreak of parvo was because the feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) that had long been present in dog vaccines mutated to a form that could jump species and infect dogs!
That effort, and the lessons learned, will be the subject of an April 6 Maddie's Fund webcast, What You Need to Know about the New York City Feline Influenza Outbreak, presented by UW Shelter Medicine Director Dr. Sandra Newbury.
Widely acknowledged as the country's leading expert on feline URI in shelters, Dr. Kate Hurley, Director of the Koret Shelter Medicine Program at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, says that yes, outbreaks can be prevented and stopped.
Indiana Public Media (Jan. 14)-- Researchers from the University of Illinois have identified coyotes as the origin of an outbreak of canine distemper that killed eight big cats at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center, a sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals.
CDC canine flu key facts CDC spotlight on the outbreak Canine Influenza H3N2 has been identified in cats with respiratory disease in a shelter in the Midwest (links to University of Wisconsin - Madison) FAQs: Feline infections with canine influenza H3N2 (CIV)(links to University of Wisconsin - Madison)
«It appears that regular vaccination protocols are ineffective against the virulent systemic form of feline calicivirus at the Humane Society of Indianapolis, but all control measures are being strictly followed and staff is working around the clock to contain the outbreak,» says Dr. Litster, a specialist in feline medicine and clinical epidemiology who regularly advises our medical team.