Clodagh
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http://www.rvc.ac.uk/News/PressReleases/pr1405-streptococcus-zooepidemicus.cfm
Has anyone heard of it? Or seen a case? It sounds awful.
Has anyone heard of it? Or seen a case? It sounds awful.
Scary.
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SaharaS
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Good to know the symptoms, glad they were given as 24 hours from onset is not a lot of time to work with if the animal stands a chance. Thanks for posting
Dobiegirl
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As its still very rare here lets hope they can devise a treatment that works before it gets into the general population of dogs.
twiggy2
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lends weight to the idea of stopping the importing of dogs from rescues abroad?
Clodagh
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Certainly does Twiggy, you work at a vets, have you ever seen it?
Trouble is if I had a coughing dog I wouldn't go to the vets normally, I have always allowed kennel cough to run its course (haven't had it for years, mind you). Perhaps I shouldn't from now on?
Trouble is if I had a coughing dog I wouldn't go to the vets normally, I have always allowed kennel cough to run its course (haven't had it for years, mind you). Perhaps I shouldn't from now on?
twiggy2
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No have not seen it but reading that article (which is 9months old or similar) most cases over here have not been diagnosed till after the event (post mortem?), we have a vet taking her medical certificate exams this week and if anyone can correctly diagnose a case it will be this vet. It looks very rare over here so personally I would stick with not taking a coughing dog to the vet unless it seemed ill in other ways.
firm
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Is that not the thing that is also carried by horses? I had a coughing dog that they could not diagnose and I remember a brief discussion by the vet about something horses can have and possibly be passed onto a dog. I did a quick google off it to try and jog my memory and this came up although I cannot access it. http://www.researchgate.net/publica..._from_three_dogs_in_close_contact_with_horses
Clodagh
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Years ago a foxhound pack lost a lot of hounds to something they caught by eating an infected horse caracss. It was awful.