[Ditter]

Don’t have time to read this now but I was just wondering if the animals deaths are spread all over the US. My brother is a veterinarian in Houston and as of last week he said his clinic has not seen suspicious animal deaths that might be cause by this food.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Interesting... wonder if it’s a distribution thing. It was when Diamond had their problem last year, it was all their food East of the Rockies.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I suspect that just given normal product distribution patterns, the contaminated food did end up clustered in a few areas. This would explain why most vets are reporting no increase at all in kidney failure cases, while a few are reporting a major increase.

NYC’s Animal Medical Center, a big teaching/research hospital that gets referral cases from all over the region, scrutinized the test results of 143 pets they treated for renal failure between March 17-20, and found only 5% to be related to contaminated food.
http://www.amcny.org/foodrecall/renalfailure.pdf