Why don't dogs get the flu?
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http://www.hsus.org/pets/pets_related_news_and_events/questions_about_canine_flu.html
"Canine influenza is a newly identified respiratory illness of dogs. It is caused by a virus which is closely related to the horse flu virus. Because canine flu is an emerging disease, dogs have no natural immunity to it. Nearly all dogs exposed to the flu virus will get infected, but not all will have clinical (that is, visible) signs of the flu. Therefore, even dogs without clinical signs can pass the virus to others because they may be infected with it."
Dogs, however, are immune to the human form of influenza(or, the flu). The reason for this is that viruses have evolved to a specific "shape" depending on what cell they are going to attack. Different species have different "shapes" on their cells that match up. Think of it like the virus being a key, your body being the lock. If you try to fit that key into your dog, it's the wrong lock and doesn't work. A rather good explaination is here:
http://searchwarp.com/swa23476.htm
"Both bacterial and viral outer structure, consist of a receptor binding proteins. These proteins give the pathogen a certain geometry. This geometry allows the pathogen to attach to complementary receptor sites on the cells of the critter that they are trying to infect. Because of the wide variety of life forms on the planet, each cell type has a different arrangement of receptors. Most of the time, the pathogen’s geometry will not fit these receptors, and the critter remains immune. Only those unlucky few species, whose cell receptors do fit, are the ones that have to suffer the infection. "
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http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=2+2102&aid=467 Article on parvovirus from vet supplies company that is run by vets and serves both vets and the public. This website has many great articles on pet health questions.
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Moan and groan and where's my coffee, and big puffy red eyes and no appetite for the dried cereal in the cold metal bowl..and there's no damn way this going out side into the rain and walking on that wet grass to have a pee stuff, and it's sigh sigh sigh and lay me down in that nice commfy doggie bed..but I digress about me...yes dogs do get the flu too....
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M$I think you may find helpful information here also, dog disease
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The appeared in a kennel of racing Greyhounds in Florida. Since then, the numbers suggest that the number that contract it small (250 diagnosed with it a year) and a tiny percentage of that will kill a dog.
BTW, a dog did die of Avian flu in 2006, but that was unusual.
As for colds, the cold viruses that we get don't cross over to canines. Dogs get kennel cough and other diseases, but we don't get those from them.
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