Veterinarians are warning preferred owner to keep an eye out for a flesh - eat on bacterial infection that has killed several dog in the last two months , as reported byThe Independent .
Alabama Rot , first identified in the U.S. , is a condition that is do byE. colibacteria excreting harmful toxins . These toxin run to cause massive skinlesions and ulcers on a dog ’s body , which if infected by additional pathogens could go to more potent infections and perhaps even fateful upshot . In particular , kidney failure happen in around 25 percent of cases .
This condition was in the beginning make out in greyhound in the 1980s , although both labradors and English cocker spaniel spaniel have of late been affected in the United Kingdom . In fact , these two breed were show to suffer from Alabama Rot at rough the same time , sparking awe that this could present the beginning of a novel outbreak .
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— Western Morning News ( @WMNNews)December 18 , 2015
“ The worry is that this might be the offset of a bunch of cases , ” Mike Nolan , a vet from the Darley House practice in Farnworth , Greater Manchester , tell theWestern Daily Press . “ If you think your dog might be present with this illness , it really is a character of free fall everything and get to the vets . ”
Currently , there is no well-defined consensus on how the disease spreads . Any dog of any old age , system of weights , stock or sex can contract the infection . Problematically , at this leg the contagion can only be definitively diagnosed after death , not before . Although an septic dog can be treated and save up , the symptom have to be see fantastically early on . Unfortunately , the likeliness of death following transmission is high .
There have been 60 reassert fatalities in the U.K. betweenNovember 2012 and December 2015 . Although this may not vocalize like much , with no known preventative measures and a very unmanageable diagnosis , a sudden outbreak is potential any time a radical of septic dog are introduced to a population of healthy ones .
