Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness
by tigershark on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:12AM
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If it’s something that is happening simultaneously in all the country while dogs living in the same animal care are not affected seems to push strongly towards contaminated food rather than towards some mysterious non infective disease just appearing all over the country.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness
by kristofferR on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:32AM
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Yeah, but it's weird that it's a combination of extremely sudden illness (often less than 24 hours from first sign to death) and a regular stream of new cases every day.
If it were from contaminated food you would expect it to happen more abruptly, then taper out. No common food link has been found either.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness
by tigershark on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:44AM
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The extremely sudden illness seems more compatible with poisoning than with a disease, or more precisely, I’m not aware of any disease capable of killing in less than 24 hours from the early signs, at least in humans, but I’m not anywhere near an expert on dog’s diseases.
About the food distribution can be that it’s affecting only some common ingredient used by different dog foods so it will be difficult to pinpoint it. If I were in Norway with a dog I would rather avoid the common dog food until there is more clarity on what’s going on.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness
by kristofferR on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:00AM
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Yeah, the dead dogs all have the Providencia alcalifaciens bacterium:
https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/MRWR00/Har-ventet-i-13-ar...
Seems unlikely that dog food is the issue, else they would have caught it by now. Dogs don't take well to quick changes in their diet either (they'd start showing some of the symptoms described), and the list of foods they shouldn't ingest is long. Recommending that people start feeding their pets human food would probably just make the whole situation a lot worse.