pseudo rabies killing 2 dogs far

[Acwells0808]

Well it didn't post.....but it was from the Florida game commission and like I said but it didn't post it was last updates in 2010 so any episode after that would not have been on there ..so sorry but everything else is true

[cajunl]

I talked to a biologist at one of the public hunts in which Chance came down. There is a vet and a biologist checking blood samples of hogs taken from that hunt and others. They had tested over 50 or so hogs and counting. Depending on locations between 1 and 3 and 1 and 5 tested positives as carriers of the disease.

Psuedorabies has almost been eradicated in the Domestic swine herd because of a vaccine for domestic pigs.

I asked if it was a young dog because it seems younger dogs and dogs with compromised immune systems seem to be the dogs that come down with the disease. A vet believes that older healthy dogs are exposed to the enough continually that they build a resistance to it. NOT an immunity but stronger resistance!

[Reuben]

I talked to a biologist at one of the public hunts in which Chance came down. There is a vet and a biologist checking blood samples of hogs taken from that hunt and others. They had tested over 50 or so hogs and counting. Depending on locations between 1 and 3 and 1 and 5 tested positives as carriers of the disease.

Psuedorabies has almost been eradicated in the Domestic swine herd because of a vaccine for domestic pigs.

I asked if it was a young dog because it seems younger dogs and dogs with compromised immune systems seem to be the dogs that come down with the disease. A vet believes that older healthy dogs are exposed to the enough continually that they build a resistance to it. NOT an immunity but stronger resistance!

if the vaccine works on pigs...It just makes me wonder why it doesn't work on dogs???

[halfbreed]

  well they are most likely testing it out rueben but you know how american medicine works . they have to pay alot of folks to test vaccines for many years before they will use it  . mainly because we are a [ i'm gonna sue you] socioty .

[Bowtech99]

No cases in Ga right? Kinda makes ya somewhat worried.

Hate to hear that about ya'lls dogs.

[fatboy outfitters]

Sorry to hear about your dogs.  I know how you feel, about 7-8 years ago I caught a boar on a Thursday night.  Loaded up dogs on Saturday night to go hunting again and my good bay dog was scratching the whole time.  We caught a few hogs and came home.  Next morning he was laying on his side and scratched the hide off of his ribs.   Put him down.  Then noticed my best strike dog Jane was starting to scratch and so was my American bulldog.   They both died the next day.  It took a while to get my stock built back up.  Still makes me mad about that hog.  We have hunted that spot 100 times since then and never had a problem. 

[Reuben]

  well they are most likely testing it out rueben but you know how american medicine works . they have to pay alot of folks to test vaccines for many years before they will use it  . mainly because we are a [ i'm gonna sue you] socioty .

I agree with you HalfBreed...

[cajunl]

if the vaccine works on pigs...It just makes me wonder why it doesn't work on dogs???

It is a live vaccine. It might also work on dogs.

For what limited cases and such a small market it would be hard to justify the cost of testing a vaccine on dogs.

[jdfinney]

so far my bulldog n 2 other rough dogs which was
at every hog and so far they haven't caught it. 
the rough dogs are older so that make sense, vet
told me its like the flu some dogs get it some wont.

[halfbreed]

   i read an artical last year when this was a topic and it basicaly said that many hogs have it but don't actualy shed the virus unless the hog is sick or in a stressed out condition . wich being bayed up and caught would do  .

[bigo]

 My Vet felt he could use the hog vaccine and by a series of shots give a dog some immunity. When he ordered the vaccine, the state came down on him like the plague had broken out. They wanted to know who owned the hogs, where they were located, how many hogs there was, what was the extent of the outbreak. They would not sell it for use on dogs.