in order for the public to best
understand canine influenza we really
should think about influenza in humans
this for is understanding how the
disease works canine influenza in fact
is caused by a virus a subtype that is
actually in the same family as human
influenza a viruses canine influenza is
a fairly recent origin within the canine
population and say the first isolate of
this particular virus occurred in March
of 2004 we were faced with the situation
of we have influenza virus and a dog
it’s never been there before that we
knew about what were the animal and our
human health implications of that so I
made a decision at that point in time to
actually forward the virus down to the
Center for Disease Control in Atlanta
and they rapidly sequenced the virus to
tell us what the origin of it was and
what what its fingerprint looked like
and that was a major find what we do
know is that this virus apparently
mutated changed through time from a
horse virus influenza virus to one that
affects dogs we believe that this
infection started among racing
greyhounds in Florida
it’s very similar to a lot of the other
upper respiratory diseases that we find
in dogs and it can be soft cough it can
be some nasal discharge they can get
lethargy a fever
some dogs require hospitalization if
they can develop pneumonia afterwards
the easiest way to prevent exposures to
prevent animal exposure but we all know
that that’s not really going to happen
so what can we do to try to limit your
dog’s exposure one way that we can do
that is by vaccinating our pets and we
do have a canine influenza virus vaccine
that is come out now so we always ask
people if their dog has been sick
recently and then we look for sneezing
coughing vomiting lethargy irregular
bowel movements not being interested in
water or food if I have a dog that just
stays at home never comes in contact
with other dogs
my dog is safe I don’t need to worry
about it
I don’t need to go out and and even get
it vaccinated however if my dog goes to
doggy daycare if my dog goes to let’s
say a training yes or maybe even to a
veterinary clinic or some other place
where animals congregate dogs congregate
then the chance of exposure increases in
that case I should get my dog vaccinated
on a scale of one to ten one being not
so bad disease to ten being really
really bad disease that make Hill it
fits down near one or two not likely to
kill most will be sick for a couple of
weeks and get over it just as we humans
do when we get the flu bug we don’t
probably want to talk to anybody during
that time and I imagine the dogs don’t
either
you
understand canine influenza we really
should think about influenza in humans
this for is understanding how the
disease works canine influenza in fact
is caused by a virus a subtype that is
actually in the same family as human
influenza a viruses canine influenza is
a fairly recent origin within the canine
population and say the first isolate of
this particular virus occurred in March
of 2004 we were faced with the situation
of we have influenza virus and a dog
it’s never been there before that we
knew about what were the animal and our
human health implications of that so I
made a decision at that point in time to
actually forward the virus down to the
Center for Disease Control in Atlanta
and they rapidly sequenced the virus to
tell us what the origin of it was and
what what its fingerprint looked like
and that was a major find what we do
know is that this virus apparently
mutated changed through time from a
horse virus influenza virus to one that
affects dogs we believe that this
infection started among racing
greyhounds in Florida
it’s very similar to a lot of the other
upper respiratory diseases that we find
in dogs and it can be soft cough it can
be some nasal discharge they can get
lethargy a fever
some dogs require hospitalization if
they can develop pneumonia afterwards
the easiest way to prevent exposures to
prevent animal exposure but we all know
that that’s not really going to happen
so what can we do to try to limit your
dog’s exposure one way that we can do
that is by vaccinating our pets and we
do have a canine influenza virus vaccine
that is come out now so we always ask
people if their dog has been sick
recently and then we look for sneezing
coughing vomiting lethargy irregular
bowel movements not being interested in
water or food if I have a dog that just
stays at home never comes in contact
with other dogs
my dog is safe I don’t need to worry
about it
I don’t need to go out and and even get
it vaccinated however if my dog goes to
doggy daycare if my dog goes to let’s
say a training yes or maybe even to a
veterinary clinic or some other place
where animals congregate dogs congregate
then the chance of exposure increases in
that case I should get my dog vaccinated
on a scale of one to ten one being not
so bad disease to ten being really
really bad disease that make Hill it
fits down near one or two not likely to
kill most will be sick for a couple of
weeks and get over it just as we humans
do when we get the flu bug we don’t
probably want to talk to anybody during
that time and I imagine the dogs don’t
either
you
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