I have read that there is a big outbreak of parvo going around at the moment
Please please be aware of this if you are visiting crufts over the next few days
Dont take any dogs that are ill- its not worth the risk to your own or to others

RU sure it's Parvo?  Have the dogs been tested and confirmed of this?

I'm only asking as last year there was a number of dogs suffering with an illness similiar to Parvo but it wasn't Parvo.

RU sure it's Parvo?  Have the dogs been tested and confirmed of this?

I'm only asking as last year there was a number of dogs suffering with an illness similiar to Parvo but it wasn't Parvo.

I'm sure that the risk at Crufts is less than walking your dogs out in public as the dogs will be vaccinated and hopefully people will not take dogs with signs of illness as it's against KC rulings.

I have heard there has been a big outbreak in Wales and somewhere else.  Also that a lot of the dogs that got it had just been vaccinated using Norbivac.

I heard on another site there was a confirmed outbreak of Parvo, but I can't remember the area now. I will check and get back on here to let you know.

Don't wish to scare anyone, but two Labradors from a reputable kennels in Yorkshire have just died from Parvo. Unfortunately I have been informed that it is Parvo.

From what Ive read elsewhere its defo parvo and its a mutated version?

My dads friends 2 dogs - springer and a lab have just died from parvo - they are in Gloucester

I'm interested to know how many of these sad deaths have been confirmed as parvo by testing before or post mortemafter?  There are many viruses that have similar symptoms as parvo and my experience is that Vets call these all Parvo without confirming it.

Also if it is parvo that would mean a fair few vaccines are not working.

But I`d also like to know how its been confirmed.

Not sure that it necessarily means vaccinations aren't working. When we lost a young dog to parvo some years ago, we were told that the virus was also carried by badgers and foxes and could transfer from them to dogs. If owners don't boost their dogs , as some people prefer, then maybe they are low in resistance and susceptible to catching it from wild animals. just a thought

If owners don't boost their dogs , as some people prefer, then maybe they are low in resistance and susceptible to catching it from wild animals. just a thought

Hm & if the titre levels show the dogs have good antibodies we should still vaccinate then ? having lost a dog to it's parvo vacc & the likelyhood of my dogs coming across a fox or badger with canine parvovirus being nil  sorry no vaccs for my dogs

Many types of mammalian species have a strain of parvovirus associated with them. A parvovirus tends to be specific about the taxon of animal it will infect. That is, a canine parvovirus will affect dogs, wolves, and foxes, but will not infect cats or humans.

Parvovirus B19, which causes fifth disease in humans, is a member of the Erythrovirus genus of Parvoviridae rather than Parvovirus.

Moonmaiden, why the aggresive reply? I don't care what you do with your dogs and I certainly haven't made or implied any criticism of people whether they boost or not.
You don't have to actually come across a badger or fox with parvo, the virus can survive outside the host creature for months, so just walking your dog in an area where an infected anmal has been, could expose it to the virus.

You might have a garden that Foxes & badgers have access to(the local badgers have all been killed here by the illegal badger baiters BTW) I don't & my dogs have titre levels that show they have maximum immunity. I had a dog die from it's parvo Vacc & I will never risk another dog dying the way he did(medical PM showed his death was caused by the vacc)

I do not "walk"my dogs anywhere there are badgers or foxes or that other dogs have access to

Your post laid the spread of parvo at the feet of people who choose not to vaccinate their dogs. Where is your evidence for this ?

I hope you titre test your dogs as well as vaccinate as a friend's dog died from Parvo(doesn't live near me BTW) & he had had all his vaccs every year yet had no resistance

I've seen foxes (or it could be the same one several times) sniffing around in our front garden and past the house on the road as well, so I would have thought they could have been anywhere outside my actual house. :(

Don't have a Garden that is accessible by foxes or anything & the motion activated CCTV verifies this.

moonmaiden try reading my post again. I have not laid the blame at anyones feet. I really don't care whether you vaccinate your dogs or not, so why do you feel the need to be so defensive?. Suggest you try a more constructive helpful approach in your replies. As for your comment about your dogs never having access to area where other animals may have passed, well you must walk them in cloud cuckoo land!

My dogs are not exercised on land that anyone else has access too & their titre level & other tests show they do not require vaccinating, my friends dog had no protection despite being vaccinted

I do not "walk" my dogs anywhere that the public have access to other than dog shows

I have auto immune disease that was caused by vaccinations & I have no intention of making my dogs go through what I have to go through

BTW have checked with my vet & badgers do not get Canine Parvovirus but the Meles Meles Parvovitus

>other than dog shows

Thats a heck of a lot of dogs in close confines isn't it, probably more than the pet dog meets in its daily walks in the park all together!

When I did used to vaccinate in early 1990s, I had titre levels tested and was told that the parvo titre levels were so high that they would give protection for life.

is that result after  the 1st vaccinations given Val, or over several years ? :)

It was the result after the first 2 puppy vaccinations.  I did have titre tests done on alternate years afterwards.  I have always only had puppy vaccinations done since I was a Veterinary Nurse 40 years ago on the advice of the Vet that I worked for but it was only in the late 1980s/early 1990s (ive just looked up the dates - doesn't time fly!) that I wanted to prove to myself that my pups were covered as I was taking them all over the country.

ive never heared of the titre test before !! i learn something new on here everyday ! what is it , a blood test & how much is it pls ?

Yes it's a blood test.  I don't know the cost because mine (and it was many years ago!) were part of a clinical trial.
But there is more to immunity that just blood titre levels.  There are memory cells involved too.  It's a wide subject that I feel everyone has to do to satisfy themselves if they are interested in the subject . :(