Man might want to keep some distance from man’s best friend.
Virologists found that two dogs in southern China had been carrying mutant strains of the influenza C virus, a disease that commonly infects people — children especially,People have previously spread illnesses like the flu to their dogs, but these new mutations are alerting scientists that diseases like the flu may now be spreading dog to dog. There is concern that these pups could also spread the diseases back to humans as well.
“We have sort of ignored dogs and cats as potential reservoirs or intermediate hosts,” said Cornell University animal virologist Colin Parrish, who runs a research group that studies pups for respiratory illnesses. Although it is reportedly too soon to tell if influenza C will become an issue in dogs, Parrish suggests that more monitoring “could be done really, really simply” to stay on top of further emerging diseases.NPR recently reportedThe new strain — already found in Arkansas, Haiti, Malaysia and Thailand — came as an initial surprise to the scientific community.
Additionally, and after studying plucked ticks from his cat, Lednicky speculates that another pet spread disease is flying under the radar to humans as well: Heartland virus. As the rarely reported disease’s symptoms mimic influenza, Lednicky added that “{Heartland] probably been diagnosed as a flu or something else” in many cases.
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