Brittney
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I was at the dog park with my dogs and a reporter came up to me and asked if he could interview me. I said sure but he didn't tell me what they were interviewing me for until the camera was on. He asked me if I had heard of the "Dog Flu" that is spreading rapidly. I said no and he asked me what I know about dogs. I told him I went to school to become a vet tech, and I am currently in vet school, but I have still never heard of this. He asked if I would pay $20 to vaccinate my dogs against it. I said yes, and he proceeded to ask why. I felt like an idiot because I don't know what he is talking about. Not once have I heard about it. Not in the news, and not even in school. He interviewed another gentleman who was rambling on and on about how bad it is and how much he knows about it. Where have I been? Under a rock? Or perhaps sleeping in class?
I came home and researched it and apparently it is a virus strain similar to that of kennel cough. They were once thought to be the same thing, but later it was found that horses were responsible for transmitting it to dogs. This is possible because horse owners vaccinate their horses like crazy (I don't blame them) and it is actually causing the stain to become immune to the vacccine allowing it to gain the ability to jump species. People are now worried that if we start vaccinating dogs against it, it will become immuned again and jump to humans. Ehrgo, another pandemic like the swine flu.
Apparently the first documented case of this was in greyhounds at a race track in Florida.
I'm so embarrassed to be on TV now looking like an idiot saying I'm in vet school but I have no idea what this is. :cry3:
Has anyone even heard of this? Or do I need to crawl out of my hole and watch the news more?
I came home and researched it and apparently it is a virus strain similar to that of kennel cough. They were once thought to be the same thing, but later it was found that horses were responsible for transmitting it to dogs. This is possible because horse owners vaccinate their horses like crazy (I don't blame them) and it is actually causing the stain to become immune to the vacccine allowing it to gain the ability to jump species. People are now worried that if we start vaccinating dogs against it, it will become immuned again and jump to humans. Ehrgo, another pandemic like the swine flu.
Apparently the first documented case of this was in greyhounds at a race track in Florida.
I'm so embarrassed to be on TV now looking like an idiot saying I'm in vet school but I have no idea what this is. :cry3:
Has anyone even heard of this? Or do I need to crawl out of my hole and watch the news more?