New Dog Flu???

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Miniv

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Does anyone know about the new flu that dogs are getting? No vaccine for it yet.

From what I heard, it originally was from an equine flu strain and mutated! Right now they think it's mostly on the East Coast but it is very contageous.

Anyone heard more about it???

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yep they talked about it on the today show last week.......this morning on the news they said it has officially hit oregon.......

It is a new strain of flu and they figure it will hit 80% of the dog population.....of that 80% there is about a 1-1 1/2 % fatality rate...there is no vaccine....it is more likely to hit public boarding kennels and currently you best defense they said was bordatella vaccine prior to any boarding situations.....
 

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I know that some dog clubs in upper New York State have been discussing it and are keeping an eye on it, haven't heard of a vacine being discussed- I don't think anyone has reported a case yet in New York state, at least not through the forums I visit, nothing from my local dog club in welland, ontario.
 

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Watching the channel 8 news last night, a dog has tested postive for it in OR.

What I am scared of, of what some dog owners might do to peoples horses now they know it jumped from horses to dogs. Sigh ~ ~
 

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Yes, I heard about it on the news too. Was surprised to hear it was originally an equine strain that was passed to dogs.
 

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I heard about this on the local news last night, but they don't have a link on their website today. They pretty much had the same info you all gave here, mutated horse virus, etc. Our local news said it's been confirmed in 8 states, the closest to us being Oregon. Fortunately my doggies are homebodies, but we will have to board them when we get the transplant call. The symptoms sounded a lot like bordetella. Wasn't someone just saying that bordatella had been diagnosed in a horse recently? It seems when we get to feeling comfortable that we've got vaccines for everything and anything, mother nature throws a new cootie into the mix.
 
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