LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Considering your pet may need hen flu? A Las Vegas pet skilled defined how you can spot whether or not your pet has it.
Jessica Dowling is the Medical Director for the Veterinary Emergency Group in Summerlin and Henderson.
She mentioned whereas Southern Nevada has seen no proof of native cat-to-cat, cat-to-human, or human-to-human unfold of h5 hen flu, and the chance to most people continues to be low, all of us ought to nonetheless be educated and vigilant.
The CDC is watching the scenario rigorously and dealing with states and vet workplaces to watch folks with animal exposures, “It is getting more common.”
A month in the past a mountain lion in Carson Metropolis examined optimistic for hen flu, and in California throughout the identical month, a handful of home cats examined optimistic.
“What they are seeing is cats that are coming up positive have been exposed to raw animal products, raw meats, raw milk, raw eggs and have a tight affinity to being on a farm, being exposed to dairy cows,” Dowling added.
Whereas many people right here in Southern Nevada do not dwell on a farm, there’s one factor that individuals right here have in widespread: rescue animals.
“A lot of us rescue, so knowing whether or not you have a rescue cat that may have come from one of those areas, is important,” Dowling mentioned.
Whereas hen flu is extraordinarily uncommon in canines, she provides there are the signs to search for in each.
“You’re looking for respiratory signs in dogs. You’re looking for respiratory signs in cats, redness in eyes, or being lethargic, or neurologic signs, walking in a circle, not being balanced, signs more severe in cats versus dogs.”
