According to Weese, the outbreak likely stems from a shipment of rescue dogs from Asia.
“We’re suspicious that this group of dogs, these infections, trace back to the importation of a dog from China,” Weese said.
The outbreak follows two earlier but smaller clusters of cases in southwestern Ontario’s Windsor-Essex County, which were also linked to imported rescue dogs from Asia. Weese cautioned that dogs in the vicinity of Grimsby, Ont. may also be at risk.
Also known as dog flu, canine influenza is a highly infectious virus that, much like its human variant, causes fever, coughing, lethargy, loss of appetite and runny noses and eyes. While relatively common in Asia, the virus is extremely rare in Canada. It cannot, however, be transmitted to humans.
“I’ve never seen anything like influenza like this,” Orillia-based veterinarian Dr. Joanne Olinyk told CTV Barrie. “These dogs do get sick, they cough. It’s scary.”
And some die.
No price is too high to signal your virtue to people who hate you.
Stalin was right about this, 1 death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.
exaggeration you say? let’s talk spanish flu 1918. more dead than the friggin war.
g*^^%$#&$U$ bleeding hearts, shoving THEIR agenda on the rest of us. how much go^%#^mn SHYT are we going to ‘import’
from Chirer before a trump-like TOTAL ban? ‘horse is already out of the stable’ syndrome.
so its a collective ‘oopsie doopsie’ and back to watching oprah.
Not a bug, a feature? – If the dog dies the owner pays for another! Everyone wins (except the dog and the owner, of course).
But but but … Oprah carrrrrrrres about Korean dogs … she wants to save their “souls” …
I cannot WAIT for President Oprah to use the power of the US to SAVE all dogs from being eaten. Finally … the US Military being used for “good”
If you tell the proud owner of a “rescue” that they essentially out bid a Chinese person for their dinner, they tend to get upset. Does the Vancouver SPCA track all the “rescues” as well as that famous pig?
It makes me wonder how much of the rescue business is livestock smuggling for that taste of home. People can’t process the fact that they like to eat dog, it’s not desperation or starvation, it’s just a menu option.
Finally … the US Military being used for “good”
By crying “Havoc!” and letting slip the dogs of war?
dwright has it nailed.
“Oh my designer rescue dog died,must of had the dog flu.
Can I please have another one?”
After all fresh dog would be a real pain to legally import and the feral North American mutt is not bred to be eaten.
Solution?
Enlist the righteous ideologues of the SPCA.
Who will import the best eating breeds and sell them at less than imported meat prices…
and they are so fresh..
There is a reason the oriental is listed in the top ranks of our edumdacation system.