Recent content by louiseandsadie

Anyway, as i have previously it’s been lovely discussing this matter with some of you ladies and thank you for your interest in the topic. I now need to take care of other matters that doesn't involve playground trolling. If anybody reading this has an overseas dog or knows somebody who has and...

Well done. But not well enough. Try again.

Circa 1980 appears to be the first reported cases in the literature. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/zoonoses-and-veterinary-public-health-disease-surveillance-reports You can see here the published figures between 2022 - 2023. We are waiting on the figures for the last quarter of...

The evidence for infection in cats is pretty poor. There is limited evidence to suggest they mount an immune response when experimentally infected but clinical disease does not seem to occur other than potentially transient 'off colour'. The UK government Brucella experts do not think that we...

2nd part: PPE is not infallible and we will all know examples of when this is accidently breached, or indeed, when it has just not been used appropriately. However, again, we come back to risk quantification. For infection to occur during a PPE breach we would need multiple factors to...

Hello, Thanks for your response and you make some really valuable points which I will now seek to address. I don’t have any evidence that it does not cause fertility issues, and I have never said that I don’t. It is not impossible that we will not, at some point, identify an association, and...

Anyway, it’s been lovely discussing this matter with you ladies and thank you for your interest in the topic. I now need to take care of other matters. However, if anybody reading this has an overseas dog or knows somebody who has and would like to converse further with me, either to share your...

Absolutely. But we don’t need to test every dog in order to get an idea of how many dogs are out there. One of the fundamental principles of research design is that we use a representative sample of sufficient size to extrapolate to make inferences about the wider population. I don’t need to...

And that’s your value judgement but just remember that vets are not always working from a strong evidence base and they’re not infallible. If this was an expert, giving an expert opinion, they would still be at the bottom of the evidence pyramid in terms of quality of evidence and I try to...

But that’s not in dispute? I don’t think I’ve ever said the dogs can’t have clinical signs associated with BC. I think you’re building up a strawman here for the purpose of debating with me. The dog may have had clinical signs associated with BC, and if so it still may have been treatable. or...

And that’s an opinion and one that you’re entitled to hold. However, generally for those opinions to get converted into policy at government level, it has to be on the basis of good quality, scientific evidence and a cost benefit analysis of relative advantages and disadvantages of such an...

Again, I’m not entirely sure what your reason was for sharing this, but I’m sure that you can expand. This is a case study. You don’t extrapolate the wider population on the basis of a case study, or make decisions over whether something is or is not curable. But also it’s worth noting. I guess...

You’re providing a popular press blog based on somebody’s opinion. I’m not sure what your endpoint was in sharing that?

Hi, It’s considered a lifelong condition only because we don’t have the scientific evidence to determine conclusively whether it a dog is or is not infected if it doesn’t show clinical signs. That’s a value judgement, as opposed to a scientific fact. And there is some published literature to...

I’m not in favour of unowned, positive dogs being imported. I think an exception should be made for own dogs that are already part of a family unit where the family is relocating or coming back to the UK. I don’t think the disease is severe enough to warrant fracturing the family unit on the...