New type of Canine Influenza!
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WorknChowz
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New type of Canine Influenza!
I recieved this from a club member. I thought it might be a hoax started by those anti-dogshow wackos, so I checked it out with dog folks in Florida. It is REAL folks and very serious! 
Let's do all we can to keep our Chow Chows safe and healthy.
"The New Canine Influenza, Greyhound Disease, Race Flu, Equine
Influenza, Avian Flu
The New Canine Flu, which has killed so many greyhounds is now in
the domestic dog population. There is no treatment and no vaccine.
It has jumped species, (by feeding greyhounds raw horse meat, which
was infected with horse influenza), (horse influenza is avian flu,
which jumped species from birds (avian flu), to horses(horse
influenza). The avian flu has now moved to racing greyhounds and
domestic dogs and the indications are that there may be a potential
problem for humans. It is deadly and it is on the loose. It may just
be a matter of time. The CDC is watching the disease.
There is no central tracking agency with report and stat capability
for dogs that will get the word out to all vets in the US.
The domestic dog population is at present risk.
This week on my net groups I saw many anecdotal accounts of $100,000
show dogs dying while packed in ice and hooked up to IVs, with high
temps. No one knows what is wrong with these dogs and the vets do
not know what they are treating. I think it is Greyhound Influenza
or Race Flu.
Show populations are now infected and the majority of veterinarians
have never heard of the disease. Isolated individuals know this but
the country as a whole does not. A few days after exposure at dog
shows, dogs are traveling back to their home states and infecting
the local populations. Many dogs are dying needlessly. It is not
kennel cough.
The period of incubation is 2-5 days. It is airborne, can be
transmitted by inanimate objects, and clothing. Virtually all
exposed will contract. The morbidity is 80% with 20% being sub
clinically affected and shedding the virus. The course of the
disease is four weeks. There are two forms, milder and very extreme.
Two weeks into the viral disease the dog looks like he is getting
over the cough and then bacterial infections become an acute
problem. Oft times the owner has reported the dog is well, only to
find that a short time later an acute bacterial infection has taken
over the dog, in a matter of hours. The owners think the disease
has run its course only to learn it hasn't gotten started yet, so
dogs are dying needlessly.
My vet thinks earlier rather than later treatment with broad
spectrum antibiotics are the best way to treat the disease. With
proper vet care perhaps there will only be a mortality of 1-5%.
The information needs to go out so that all vets will know this is
not kennel cough, so they will not VAX for kennel cough while ill,
and so they can monitor beyond the two week period.
It has been almost impossible for me to understand how in the last
four days I have contacted state vets who have never heard of the
new influenza, all the while, the people with the info on the
disease, refuse to release it nationally.
The AVMA has info that will go out next month. How many will die
prior to that? I have begged and cajoled them to do this, so perhaps
we are making some headway, however, we need info to go out ASAP.
APHIS says it is not their job.
The people who are handling research on the initial outbreak in
FLA., are contacting local, (FLA) BUT not national sources to
disseminate information.
In my conversations with the researchers at the U. of FLA. I was
told, by the lead researcher, who owns greyhounds, that they have
no responsibility to provide this info to other states or to other
vets. (BTW, Is some of the research funded by the gaming
organizations?) (My state,GA., the state of FLA., and three highly
placed individuals at Pfizer, told me to call the researcher.) The
researcher said to me that cultures do not need to be done on
potential affecteds, and she denied that the illness is from horses,
though she is quoted in articles as applauding the Cornell
researcher who identified it as horse influenza. The FLA state vet
said:"We know it came from horses."
The researcher is working to do a contracted vaccine with " a
company." She is working on a paper. She did not want to discuss the
influenza though her name, email and number appears as the contact
source on the state of FLA Veterinary Alert and Advisory that went
out to all FLA vets. I was told by some at Pfizer that Pfizer is
not the company who is helping her develop the vaccine.
The researcher said the FLA VETERINARY ALERT AND ADVISORY should
not be put on the net. However the FLA state Vet, Dr. Thomas Holt,
told me, on Fri., Sept 16, 2005 to put it on the net..."Feel free to
use it."
AGAIN< I have spoken to state vets who do not know anything at all
about this illness even though the state of FLA. put out memos on
the influenza in August 05 in the state of FLA., without notifying
other states.
If the researchers are correct there will be a national epidemic.
When a disease is in a mobile population an epidemic is possible.
Large groupings of dogs, such as shows, kennels, rescues, etc., are
at risk.
Most vets across the country have never heard of the disease. A
treatment protocol has not been developed. They are treating it as
if it is kennel cough. All vets need to be informed about it ASAP!
Many of us concerned dog people would like to see state statistics
compiled on the illness and the eventual treatment outcomes.
We need you to get the word out."
Let's do all we can to keep our Chow Chows safe and healthy.
"The New Canine Influenza, Greyhound Disease, Race Flu, Equine
Influenza, Avian Flu
The New Canine Flu, which has killed so many greyhounds is now in
the domestic dog population. There is no treatment and no vaccine.
It has jumped species, (by feeding greyhounds raw horse meat, which
was infected with horse influenza), (horse influenza is avian flu,
which jumped species from birds (avian flu), to horses(horse
influenza). The avian flu has now moved to racing greyhounds and
domestic dogs and the indications are that there may be a potential
problem for humans. It is deadly and it is on the loose. It may just
be a matter of time. The CDC is watching the disease.
There is no central tracking agency with report and stat capability
for dogs that will get the word out to all vets in the US.
The domestic dog population is at present risk.
This week on my net groups I saw many anecdotal accounts of $100,000
show dogs dying while packed in ice and hooked up to IVs, with high
temps. No one knows what is wrong with these dogs and the vets do
not know what they are treating. I think it is Greyhound Influenza
or Race Flu.
Show populations are now infected and the majority of veterinarians
have never heard of the disease. Isolated individuals know this but
the country as a whole does not. A few days after exposure at dog
shows, dogs are traveling back to their home states and infecting
the local populations. Many dogs are dying needlessly. It is not
kennel cough.
The period of incubation is 2-5 days. It is airborne, can be
transmitted by inanimate objects, and clothing. Virtually all
exposed will contract. The morbidity is 80% with 20% being sub
clinically affected and shedding the virus. The course of the
disease is four weeks. There are two forms, milder and very extreme.
Two weeks into the viral disease the dog looks like he is getting
over the cough and then bacterial infections become an acute
problem. Oft times the owner has reported the dog is well, only to
find that a short time later an acute bacterial infection has taken
over the dog, in a matter of hours. The owners think the disease
has run its course only to learn it hasn't gotten started yet, so
dogs are dying needlessly.
My vet thinks earlier rather than later treatment with broad
spectrum antibiotics are the best way to treat the disease. With
proper vet care perhaps there will only be a mortality of 1-5%.
The information needs to go out so that all vets will know this is
not kennel cough, so they will not VAX for kennel cough while ill,
and so they can monitor beyond the two week period.
It has been almost impossible for me to understand how in the last
four days I have contacted state vets who have never heard of the
new influenza, all the while, the people with the info on the
disease, refuse to release it nationally.
The AVMA has info that will go out next month. How many will die
prior to that? I have begged and cajoled them to do this, so perhaps
we are making some headway, however, we need info to go out ASAP.
APHIS says it is not their job.
The people who are handling research on the initial outbreak in
FLA., are contacting local, (FLA) BUT not national sources to
disseminate information.
In my conversations with the researchers at the U. of FLA. I was
told, by the lead researcher, who owns greyhounds, that they have
no responsibility to provide this info to other states or to other
vets. (BTW, Is some of the research funded by the gaming
organizations?) (My state,GA., the state of FLA., and three highly
placed individuals at Pfizer, told me to call the researcher.) The
researcher said to me that cultures do not need to be done on
potential affecteds, and she denied that the illness is from horses,
though she is quoted in articles as applauding the Cornell
researcher who identified it as horse influenza. The FLA state vet
said:"We know it came from horses."
The researcher is working to do a contracted vaccine with " a
company." She is working on a paper. She did not want to discuss the
influenza though her name, email and number appears as the contact
source on the state of FLA Veterinary Alert and Advisory that went
out to all FLA vets. I was told by some at Pfizer that Pfizer is
not the company who is helping her develop the vaccine.
The researcher said the FLA VETERINARY ALERT AND ADVISORY should
not be put on the net. However the FLA state Vet, Dr. Thomas Holt,
told me, on Fri., Sept 16, 2005 to put it on the net..."Feel free to
use it."
AGAIN< I have spoken to state vets who do not know anything at all
about this illness even though the state of FLA. put out memos on
the influenza in August 05 in the state of FLA., without notifying
other states.
If the researchers are correct there will be a national epidemic.
When a disease is in a mobile population an epidemic is possible.
Large groupings of dogs, such as shows, kennels, rescues, etc., are
at risk.
Most vets across the country have never heard of the disease. A
treatment protocol has not been developed. They are treating it as
if it is kennel cough. All vets need to be informed about it ASAP!
Many of us concerned dog people would like to see state statistics
compiled on the illness and the eventual treatment outcomes.
We need you to get the word out."
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all...
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I am active on the Rottweiler forum as well, and I have not heard about this. Being as rotties are working breeds and active in all arenas I would think if this were real they would be screaming about it in the Health forum. If I see it pop up there, I'll let you know, but right now... IMHO I'm leaning toward hoax.
Michele
^Rogan^ at the Bridge on 5/16/09 -- always in my heart
^Rogan^ at the Bridge on 5/16/09 -- always in my heart