The Latest on Dog Flu
From SacBee, Researchers seek help battling dog flu
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Like people, dogs with the flu develop runny noses, sneezes, coughs and fever. And, as with the human flu, the illness can be mild, moderate, severe and even lethal. The mortality rate so far has been low, about 5 percent to 8 percent.Most of the people that have contracted bird flu have been in close contact with chickens or poultry. There is less concern in the US about getting bird flu, however people live in close contact with their dogs, so it would be worrisome.
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Ruben Donis, a flu geneticist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who collaborated on the research, said this is the first known instance in 100 years of research that a flu strain has became established in a completely new species.
What health officials fear is that the virus may evolve to spread from person to person, potentially causing a global epidemic, because it would be a new strain in humans to which they have not developed immunity.bird flu dog flu
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Monday October 24, 2005 at 8:56am
