How much is that Korean “rescue” dog in the window?
In a bit of a surprising twist, research performed by Cornell University, the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the National Veterinary Services Laboratory has indicated that the large, ongoing canine flu outbreak in the midwest US is being caused by an H3N2 influenza strain, not the expected H3N8 canine flu strain. Molecularly, the strain is closely related to H3N2 strains that are circulating in dogs in China and South Korea. H3N2 canine flu emerged in that region in the mid 2000s and is widely circulating in some areas.
You knocked this one out of the park:
Katewerk @katewerk Mar 23
.@allan5oh More concerned with what dies here – foreign rescues have imported canine influenza, heartworm into Canada.
Not only is it a domestic pet concern, but it could be a human health concern.
Since that stupid Wyane Pacelli took over the Humane Society has adpote same kind of idiotic philoesphies PETA have
Foreign dogs, doing the jobs and Canadians won’t do.
please ignore the word “and” in my previous post
There’s a couple of local humane societies that are quite open about the fact that their dogs are coming from Mexico, which seems inefficient to me – are there really no local dogs that need adopting any more? I admit I haven’t been following this issue much as I’m not a pet owner and don’t anthropomorphize animals; is there a blog or something somewhere that summarizes the issues involved with this importing of dogs from the third world?
Heartworm is now endemic in North America. For its migration north into Canada from the middle and south US, look to our border-oblivious FN… This a long standing and well understood problem, long before offshore rescues…
Where are the chicken, pig etc. rescues?