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Raccoons, Raccoon Roundworms and Swimming Pools
Here’s a question I get surprisingly often. I found a dead raccoon (or raccoon poop) in my pool and I’m freaking out about raccoon roundworms. What should I do? The raccoon roundworm, Baylisascaris...
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Human Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Linked to Raw Pet Diets
Avian flu caused an uptick in discussion about health risks associated with feeding dogs and cats raw meat, based on the possible (and still pretty tenuous) link between raw poultry and a large number...
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Vaccine Hesitancy in Pets: A Look At Adverse Event Rates
Vaccine hesitancy by pet owners has been in the news a lot recently, largely due to a recent study about the prevalence and consequences of vaccine hesitancy among dog owners in the US (Motta et al....
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Extensively drug resistant Salmonella outbreak linked to raw pet diets and...
I’m supposed to be in Rome for an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) meeting but a positive COVID test but a kink in my travel plans. So, I’ll take some unexpected time to catch up on some blog material....
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Salmonella outbreak linked to dry pet foods, USA
The US CDC is reporting an outbreak of salmonellosis linked to dry pet foods. It’s a small outbreak in terms of diagnosed number of infections (7) but as always, the diagnosed infections are presumably...
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What Were They Thinking? Purchased Skunk With Rabies
In case anyone would like a break from all the canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRDC) posts, take a moment to gawk in disbelief (as I did initially) at this human-created debacle: Skunk...
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Bluetongue In a Dog
I’ll take a break from writing about widespread canine infectious respiratory disease complex (CIRDC) in North America to talk about a single case of a rare disease in a dog. Wageningen Veterinary...
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Candida auris in Dogs
Candida auris is an emerging infectious disease threat. This fungus causes disease almost exclusively in immunocompromised people, with infections most often acquired in hospital. While infections are...
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Snakes, Rodents, Bearded Dragons and Salmonella
Reptiles and Salmonella is about as far from a new story as anything on this blog, but talking about it is still worthwhile, because it’s still making people ill. I’ll package two similar stories into...
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Unnerving Diaper Discovery
In case you need a break from all the discussion about H5N1 influenza and the multitude of species it now seems to be able to infect, there’s nothing like a good zoonotic parasite story to make your...
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