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An
easily preventable, painful disease, and when left untreated is
usually fatal.
Prevention
is in the form of a vaccination shot. Puppies as young as six weeks,
or as soon as they are weaned should have shots and subsequent shots
every three weeks until they are 16 weeks old. Current medical
recommendations state dogs should be subsequently vaccinated one time
per year.
Any
age dog can get Parvo but puppies are more likely to show signs of
affliction because their immune system is weaker than older dogs.
Parvo
is a virus that attacks any rapidly diving cells, in a dog that is
the gut wall, bone marrow and the heart.
When
the virus attacks a dogs' gut wall, they will bleed into their gut
through the stomach lining and the virus will get into the blood
stream. And often Parvo is fatal.
Symptoms
of Parvo are lethargy, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, not eating or
drinking. Parvo is transmitted through dogs only in fecal oral transmission.
For
example, if an infected dog defecates, a fly or insect lands on the
stool of an infected dog and flies to another dog's food that dog can
become infected. Often dogs that are around other dogs can become
infected, but they are not the only cases. Vaccine is the best
prevention, You can't disinfect everything. You can't stop flies and
bugs. Insects are not the only way it is transmitted.
The
important thing is that we do anything we can to boost Parvo puppy's
immunity. Blood transfusion is not a guaranteed solution to kicking
Parvo but argues the added antibodies help. There is no literature
that says giving whole blood is going to save the puppy from Parvo.
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