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New strain of dog flu hits northeast Ohio
POSTED 4:43 PM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017, BY JENNIFER JORDAN, UPDATED AT 04:45PM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
SOLON, OH ? There is a new health alert for Northeast Ohio pet owners.
Several dogs have had to be hospitalized after contracting a very highly contagious strain of canine influenza.
...there?s a new strain emerging called the H3N2, potentially more contagious and more deadly.
Doctor Samantha Huston at Solon Animal Hospital says, "I think that it is alarming. We've known about the outbreak since 2015 in Chicago, but slowly by slowly it's been spreading elsewhere. So it was only just a matter of time before it would come into Northeast Ohio."
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POSTED 4:43 PM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017, BY JENNIFER JORDAN, UPDATED AT 04:45PM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
SOLON, OH ? There is a new health alert for Northeast Ohio pet owners.
Several dogs have had to be hospitalized after contracting a very highly contagious strain of canine influenza.
...there?s a new strain emerging called the H3N2, potentially more contagious and more deadly.
Doctor Samantha Huston at Solon Animal Hospital says, "I think that it is alarming. We've known about the outbreak since 2015 in Chicago, but slowly by slowly it's been spreading elsewhere. So it was only just a matter of time before it would come into Northeast Ohio."
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