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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 Olsen added: "There are also reports of the human influenza virus going from people to dogs but this is, again, a rare occurrence."
Dogs can get something called the canine influenza virus, but that "has adapted itself to dogs and really is a dog pathogen at this point," Olsen said. It originally came from horses and mainly affects canines in an animal shelter.
Similarly, a recently developed dog flu vaccine has nothing to do with H1N1, said Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a professor in the department of small animal clinical sciences at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. "It's for a totally separate disease. It's not something people get."
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"Our concern is transmission from human-to-human but we do need to protect pigs [and turkeys]," she said.
"Each animal tends to get its own kind of flu," Treanor said.
More information
Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more on H1N1 flu.
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Last updated 11/5/2009
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SOURCES: Chris Olsen, D.V.M., Ph.D., professor, public health, and associate dean, academic affairs, University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, Madison; John Treanor, M.D., professor, medicine, and director, infectious diseases division, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y.; Bonnie V. Beaver, D.V.M., professor, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station; Associated Press
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