Back in March 2024, I wrote a post about a systematic review of the efficacy of antibiotics and probiotics and the associated treatment guidelines for acute diarrhea in dogs from the European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Treatment (ENOVAT)
H5N1 influenza has been widespread is US dairy cattle for close to a year, so you might wonder why a recent report of H5N1 in dairy cattle in Nevada is garnering extra attention. Well, it all comes down to the
Earlier today I wrote about a New York Times story about some interesting H5N1 flu transmission data from the US CDC that was posted briefly on Wednesday and was then quickly removed from the CDC website. The information suggested they’d
Cat-to-human or human-to-cat transmission of H5N1 influenza would be concerning but not too surprising.
Suppression of information by the US government would be concerning but not surprising given what’s going on at the moment.
But, did those occur?
The sharp
Addendum: The Oregon Veterinary Medical Association has indicated in a release that the cat discussed below was euthanized because of the severity of disease. That’s more consistent with the severe disease that’s usually reported but I think the discussion below
As H5N1 avian influenza continues to spread in wild birds and spills over into domestic birds and mammals of many kinds, we’re becoming more aware of the risks to domestic mammals and there are more questions about test selection and
TLDR: Nope.
These days I commonly get the question ”Does vaccination of dogs with available canine influenza vaccines protect them from H5N1 avian flu?” While we don’t have any hard data on this, we still have a pretty good idea of
My post earlier this week about culling considerations for control of disease outbreaks in animals generated some good discussion and ideas (and a surprisingly small number of “you’re an idiot” emails). Although that post was focused primarily on culling in
The recent situation has raised more discussion about the role of mass culling in response to H5N1 influenza infection in domestic / captive birds. After H5N1 flu was identified on an ostrich farm in British Columbia, the CFIA ordered all
