Parvo cases... What are you all seeing?

Re: Parvo cases... What are you all seeing?

Bob Russell — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:53:11 GMT

No cases here for several years but I do an 8,12,16 week vaccination protocol and have done for a couple of years.

A couple of minutes to explain why we don't do things the same way as the competition gets the clients on-side.

Re: Parvo cases... What are you all seeing?

Hanna Bennett — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:08:53 GMT

we currently snap test everything with haemorrhagic gastroenteritis as we had a few 'unexpected' parvo positives - probably get one positive a week, of anything from 5-15 tests run. had one positive (and very sick) 8mo vaccinated dog - litter mate was 'just a bit off' - he went through a week of intensive treatment to thankfully come out the other side - we have always done 12 wk 2nd vacc but now recommending 16 wk parvo only vaccs for everything to ensure protection to 1 yr old

Re: Parvo cases... What are you all seeing?

Anthony Dennison — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:40:24 GMT

In my first 6 months of practice I was seeing on average one or week or so. Some were typical V+/D+ all over everywhere, but I also saw a few where they were just quiet, off colour and a little bit of diarrhoea with no blood in it, though they came back parvo positive on a snap test.

We have 13 branches and so are very paranoid about spreading parvo around, we perhaps over use the snap tests but I'd rather be safe than sorry

Re: Parvo cases... What are you all seeing?

Colin Thomson — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:53:02 GMT

We see maybe 1-2 cases a month on average, although they do tend to come in clusters. Usually unvaccinated dogs or pups that are too young to vaccinate or only partially vaccinated. We've had one in a vaccinated young adult in the last 2 years that I can recall. The vaccine company were very good in paying for the interferon (and most everything else).

Lungworm? What's that? (We keep looking, but we haven't found it yet).

Colin

Re: Parvo cases... What are you all seeing?

Braden Collins — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:39:42 GMT

We have had around 200 cases in the last 3 years in our area (rough figure after talking to other vets). 5 of those cases were dogs that had a 10-12 week finish to their vaccinations, as one of the clinics followed the advice of the vaccine manufacturers. All clinics locally are doing a 16 week finish again and we haven't seen parvo in a vaccinated dog since they changed back to this finish.

the 5 dogs that developed parvo after an early finish were all around 9-12 months old at the time of developing it.

Re: Parvo cases... What are you all seeing?

Rob Loxley — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:05:36 GMT

Yes we see bouts, and I've not seen it in anything apart from an unvaccinated pup that, shall we say, hasn't had the best start in life nor any funds to do intensive treatment.

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Rachael Winder — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:30:58 GMT

We seem to get it in cycles.About every 12-18mths we'll get a cluster of cases. The most recent cluster were all under 12m old and unvaccinated. However the time before that all the dogs were from the same street and all unvaccinated ( had 1st and 2nd vaccs but none since) and were all 6y.o.+. Usually though it is unvaccinated pups less than 4m still. Touching wood quickly, not had any for a while...

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Charlotte Marshall — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:08:16 GMT

We tend to see a few cases every year usually in unvaccinated pups. Occasionally there will be a little grouping all coming from the same area and we might see some older dogs sometimes ones that have had an initial course but not the first booster. That used to be more rottweilers but we do recommend an extra parvo in rotties now at 16 weeks.

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ruths — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:06:02 GMT

Yes, I know. I've seen so much parvo over the years as I've worked in charities. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the wsava vacc guidelines... Esp the puppy MDA issues and data sheets. I am wanting to keep up to date about the relative risks... Were the older dogs that died vaccinated? ( you know how you get obsessed with certain diseases? don't get me started on lungworm... )

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Utlendigur — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:56:31 GMT

Two definite cases last year - same household, both young adult husky types, not vaccinated. Charity clients....both dogs died. The other (older) dog in the house, which had had vaccinations several years before survived. Plus cockapoo puppy two weeks ago - positive on snap test but had been vaccinated few days before so ?? - again charity client. Pup died.

Re: Parvo cases... What are you all seeing?

Rob Davis — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:53:29 GMT

We tend to see a handful of cases every few months, usually in unvaccinated puppies, but occasionally in older dogs. We did have a run of parvo in older pups (4-8 months old) after being vaccinated at 8 and 10 weeks a few years ago, but since changing our protocol to second vaccination at 12 weeks or 8, 10 and 16 weeks we haven't seen any more of these.

[quote user="ruths"]Turns out I've posted 18 times before! Must have been a long time ago![/quote]

Turns out your last post was to do with parvo too! (http://www.vetsurgeon.org/forums/p/4972/17866.aspx#17866)

PS I'm not stalking you - all your posts are visible on your profile page!

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Clive Ansell — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:48:39 GMT

I've had a suspect case today.

7 week old unvaccinated French Bulldog puppy picked up from breeder 3 days ago. profuse haemorrhagic diarrhoea, vomiting and pyrexic. Very poor, underweight and pot bellied specimen with umbilical hernia. Owners have no money (despite having just bought a French bulldog puppy ) so have declined the advised IVFT and testing for parvo in favour of oral rehydration and symptomatic treatment. Would be surprised if it lives.

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ruths — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:36:09 GMT

Turns out I've posted 18 times before! Must have been a long time ago!