NC shelter to put down 200 animals with respiratory illness

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Source: http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/8190465/

NC shelter to put down 200 animals with illness

...The Catawba County Animal Shelter in Newton will temporarily close starting Wednesday while the facility is sanitized.

County animal services manager Jay Blatche saysthe ailment is an upper respiratory virus. But testing at Cornell University and Oklahoma State University have failed to identify the illness...

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Re: NC shelter to put down 200 animals with respiratory illness

Source: http://www.wsoctv.com/news/24911033/detail.html

Animal Shelter Reopens After Illness Outbreak

Posted: 2:29 pm EDT September 7, 2010
CATAWBA COUNTY, N.C. -- The Catawba County Animal Shelter reopened Tuesday after an illness outbreak forced its temporary closure.

The outbreak killed 13 dogs and cats and sickened dozens of others in early August, prompting shelter officials? decision to euthanize nearly 200 animals and temporarily close to prevent the illness from spreading further.

The virus still hasn?t been identified, but shelter officials said they now think the outbreak was actually two different viruses -- one that sickened cats and one that sickened dogs. Tests conducted at university laboratories were either inconclusive or negative for known animal illnesses, according to shelter officials...