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Nature & Pets

You and Your Pet: Canine infectious

Respiratory Disease Complex (CIRDC)

By Dr. Cindy Krane DVM, Calusa Veterinary Center, 6900 the media has dubbed it “a mysterious respiratory illness.” Vaccination is key to controlling CIRDC. Veterinarians,
Congress Avenue, Boca Raton, FL 33487 (561) 999-3000. CIRDC is transmitted via contact by the mouth or nose with boarding kennels, and grooming shops should advise dogs to
www.CVCBoca.com. respiratory secretions that are sneezed or coughed into the air by be current on the annual Bordetella bronchiseptica vaccination,
Commonly referred to as Kennel Cough, this infectious a sick dog, by direct dog-to-dog contact, and via contaminated and CIV (Canine Influenza Virus, also known as Dog Flu)
respiratory disease can be caused by several viral and bacterial fomites (objects that can harbor infection like water bowls, food vaccination. The vaccine series consists of an initial vaccine
pathogens. Prevalence of various pathogens involved in bowls, toys, and bedding). The incubation period from when one with a doctor and a booster vaccine in three weeks followed
CIRDC differs based on the geographical area and season. dog is exposed until they develop clinical signs can range for by annual boosters. Dogs must be at least eight weeks of age to
There is currently a virulent respiratory pathogen spreading 2-10 days. The clinical signs include coughing, sneezing, nasal receive these vaccinations. Dog owners should exercise caution
rapidly across the United States. The cause is unknown, and discharge, and in more severe cases lethargy and fever. or avoid altogether going to dog parks, doggy day care, boarding
and grooming to minimize exposure to infectious diseases.
Environmental management is also crucial in reducing the
Book Review from page 22 are transported quickly from 1944 to 1945 and back again to spread of CIRDC. Clean all organic material from the surfaces
1944 or to the late 1930s...and from one character’s life to (discharges/food/hairs and urine or stool). The pathogens are
Resistance to Allied forces with messages about German another’s. It all moves so smoothly that, each time I began to readily susceptible to routine disinfectants such as diluted
military placements, so that the transmitters and their senders read, before I had a moment to look up I had already turned bleach. The cleaning product should be applied to all areas and
can be wiped out. at least sixty or seventy pages. have 10 minutes of contact time. Prevent pooling of water and
In Saint-Malo, those broadcasts are coming from the In the end, after all the horrors and tragedy of war, what keep surfaces as dry as possible to decrease microbial growth.
house where now sixteen-year-old Marie-Laure lives with survives is the uplifting, indomitable good that cannot be Ventilation helps reduce the spread of CIRDC. Minimizing
her uncle, Etienne. extinguished in some of humanity. stress, reducing overcrowding, and decreasing the length of stay
While Marie-Laure and Werner are the two main characters, “All the Light We Cannot See” will most assuredly be made after their service has been performed, are all useful to prevent
there are others as well. One of them is Sergeant-Major Reinhold into a motion picture. You owe it to yourself to read the book spreading of the disease.
von Rumpel, who has been assigned by the Nazis to scour first. Nothing will compare to this original story. I have thought At this time there is no available vaccine for the “mystery
Europe in search of the greatest treasures in all forms of art. Hitler about it and cannot imagine who could play the four roles of illness” and it will likely take scientists some time to figure
plans to create at the end of the war the largest museum ever Marie-Laure and Werner as their young and teen-age characters. out what the causative agent is (bacteria, virus or other) and to
built, to house all of the art stolen from the various conquered The one thing I do know is that I hope my daughters will permit develop a vaccine. Veterinarians are currently vaccinating dogs
nations. Von Rumpel has heard of the legendary diamond at the me to take them to the film as soon as it comes to the theatre. for the known respiratory pathogens CIV and Bordetella with
Paris Museum of Natural History. He has another, desperate ***** proven safe and effective vaccines. As soon as a vaccine has
reason for his search: von Rumpel is gravely ill, and if the All I can say now is, “I told you so.” Way back then, been developed to prevent the new respiratory disease it should
curse surrounding the Sea of Flames diamond is true he will the book eventually stayed on the national bestseller lists be considered based on your dog’s lifestyle and risk factors.
not succumb to his illness but will live forever. for more than 200 weeks! And the much-heralded new film It is unknown what role COVID-19 has played in the
What makes this novel so remarkable is not only the story, version—on TV screens rather than theatres—has received emergency of the “mysterious respiratory illness.” During
which is beautiful and memorable in itself, but the unique mixed reactions from critics and preview audiences, most the height of COVID, dogs were not socializing nor were
style in which the author decided to tell it. It is a story that notably because the screenwriters made so many changes they getting routine veterinary care. This indirectly may have
spans a period of eighty years, from 1934 to 2014, but is not that The Hollywood Reporter wrote, “By the third episode weakened dogs’ immune systems, lowered their defense and
told as a straight chronological narrative. Instead, in chapters the plot barely resembled the novel.” If you didn’t take my ability to fight new diseases.
of mostly two and three pages, sometimes of only a page, we recommendation the first time, do it now. Read the book.
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