Posted on 05/18/2023 2:18:03 PM PDT by algore
Parvo is highly contagious in kennels, dog parks, dog poop spots, and from shared bowls. The yearly 5 way vaccine usually includes Parvo prevention.
Parvo is a single stranded DNA virus that requires a fast growing cell to replicate. Certain breeds have a susceptibility to the virus. It was first identified the Summer of 78’ when it mutated at a Collie show in Mobile, Alabama. Older dogs are rarely infected and younger dogs with the fastest growing cells most susceptible. The virus replicates in such numbers it is highly infective in an environment as it takes as few as eight virions to cause disease. It is now endemic in the canine world so vaccinate your pups and live with it. The Summer of 78’ was an exciting time for me as I was in veterinary microbiolgy and the growing of the virus in vitro was difficult until we found that it grew on Feline kidney cells which gave us a hint as to its origin. I fully expected it to mutate into the human population by now as it mutates into another species about every twenty to forty years.
Same here.
The government has fun killing millions of chickens and turkeys, now they are moving on to dogs. Just their way of letting you know who is boss.
It’s Spring, fleas and ticks are on the uptick as well..
How did they tear them? And what kind of dogs?
Rottweiler. Chasing squirrels. Both times.
What was the procedure? Autograph or allugraph? I’ve had 2 allugraphs on the same leg.
since 1978 was 45 years ago, what other species is parvo in?
This might not be popular but I’ll bet this is the direct result of humans bringing their pets to places that normally wouldnt allow them. Grocery stores, hotels, planes, etc etc. More interaction between different humans and animals seems like a perfect way to breed new pathogens.
coyotes, wolves, foxes, raccoons, minks, skunks and bobcats to name a few.
More likely the pandemic puppy boom didn’t get vacciinated along with an increase in bad owners who don’t pick up their dog’s poop.
The surgeon used a semi-cylindrical bone saw, in a reciporcating rotary tool, to cut and repositon one of the bones (above or below the joint, I forget..) in order to redistribute the loads normally carried by the ACL (surgeon said it was Crainial Cruciate Ligament).
A reciprocating rotary saw? A Sawzall with a wheel? They just drilled holes in my femur and fibula and stuck a donor in there. It was painfull. More than the injury. (Aluragraph). Autograph is a bodies own tendons borrowed. Alluragraph is a donor ( a deceased organ donor).
Hasn’t the parvo vax been around for a loooong time?
Maybe there’s a new ‘version’ they want to get out, across the country.
She tore them just chasing after a critter in the yard. She’s a mixed breed and weighs about 35 lbs.
No he is mostly a ‘house dog’ but I’m going to get him inoculated now. He was.
“More interaction between different humans and animals seems like a perfect way to breed new pathogens.“
I agree but the dogs uber alles people don’t see it.
Sounds a lot like AIDS
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