[Cagdu] FW: Quarantine being lifted at Guide Dog Foundation -- Newsday.com

Sun Apr 20 20:55:56 PDT 2008

Wow!! Yet an other story of great substance. Thanks for the stories.
Keep them coming.

On 4/20/08, tina thomas <tinadt at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Subject: Quarantine being lifted at Guide Dog Foundation -- Newsday.com
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> Quarantine being lifted at Guide Dog Foundation
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> BY STACEY ALTHERR
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> stacey.altherr@ <mailto:stacey.altherr%40newsday.com> newsday.com
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> April 20, 2008
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> Both puppies and adult dogs at the Guide Dog
> Foundation for the Blind in Smithtown have been under
> quarantine for two weeks following an influenza-type
> of outbreak that killed one dog.
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> The quarantine will be lifted tomorrow, according to
> officials at the organization, and the canines will be
> reunited with their families.
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> On March 30, several dogs came down with "kennel
> cough," or bordetella. Although all dogs receive
> vaccinations for the disease, they can sometimes come
> down with a mild strain of it anyway, said Grete Eide,
> director of canine care at the organization.
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> About four days later, one of the dogs, Granite, came
> down with a fever and seemed lethargic. He was taken
> to a local animal hospital and admitted.
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> "Once we realized we had a dog with a fever and
> respiratory symptoms, we spoke with the folks at
> Cornell [College of Veterinary Medicine] and they
> recommended
> the safest thing was to quarantine our kennel," Eide
> said.
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> Two days later, another dog, Gabriel, came down with
> the same symptoms and was also admitted to the
> hospital. Granite was euthanized when it was clear he
> wouldn't get well. Gabriel recovered but was taken out
> of the guide dog program in case of lingering health
> issues. He was adopted by his foster family.
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> "We notified our volunteers," Eide said. "We've got
> 240 puppy walkers, and many have brought their dogs in
> for visits." Approximately 30 dogs were living
> there at the time, she said.
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> Puppy walkers are volunteers who raise puppies for
> about a year until they are old enough to enter the
> guide dog training program. Families can leave the
> puppies at the site when they are away. The older dogs
> undergoing training live on-site and then go to live
> with their new owners.
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> Those dogs caught up in the quarantine will be
> reunited tomorrow with their families. "We are
> expecting a very busy day," Eide said.
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> In all, 12 dogs were affected, and all except Granite
> have since recovered.
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> Officials are still not clear what killed Granite and
> sickened the other dogs, and blood samples have proved
> inconclusive. It is possible that Granite and
> Gabriel were infected with a rare form of bordetella.
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> Training was suspended for two weeks and will resume
> tomorrow, according to Eide.
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