An Ann Arbor area veterinarian is cautioning dog owners this week after seeing increase in what could be circovirus cases at her clinic. Dr. Lindsay Ruland of the Emergency Veterinary Hospital in Scio Township said hundreds of dogs have been arriving at her clinic for the past year with severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and interstitial pneumonia. Cases have continued to mount—and Ruland said she’s seeing more this fall than ever: about five to 10 animals come into her 24-hour clinic each week, sick with a mysterious virus. In the month of September, six of them died. “We think it’s the same thing we saw last year—just more aggressive,” Ruland said. “During the summertime we didn’t see that many. It seemed to correlate with last year’s flu season.” Ruland said she suspects that the sickness could be attributed to circovirus, which is more commonly found in pigs and birds. Canine circovirus was first reported in June 2012 and detected in a California dog this April.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:27:57 +0000
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