Dog flu: what to do

So I think it’s fair to say that we have a partial outbreak of dog flu in the United States, the question is, how do we stop it? Aside from prophylaxis (prevention) which we’re not even sure we can say we know how to manage properly, what do we do to keep ourselves safe from the condition? “There is no evidence that it can infect people,” said Dr. Ruben Donis of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who published a report on the new virus in the journal Science. That said, how can you be sure of this based on how long the canine strain has been prevalent?”

This strain of virus is known to animal health experts as a strain of equine influenza that has been in circulation for the past 40 years. The troubling question that no one knows the answer to at this time is how this flu strain mutated in dogs into what was originally thought to be a specific equine flu.

Since this is a relatively new strain of flu, health experts can’t say for sure whether humans are at risk due to the lack of exposure we’ve had to this specific strain of flu: however, the odds are very high. unlikely due to the fact that over time, no person has been infected while handling a horse that had the virus.

As a dog owner, it’s hard to know what to do. Do we protect our dogs and send them to an indoor life, or do we continue to treat them the same way we do now? Health experts will tell you to do the latter, however it’s their way of trying to defuse the situation, I can’t say for sure.