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East Lancashire vets in vaccination plea after puppy's virus death

4:00pm Thursday 2nd January 2014 in News

VETS across East Lancashire have been warning people to get their dogs vaccinated after a puppy died of the deadly parvovirus.

An eight-week old bulldog caught the highly-contagious canine disease following an outbreak in the Rochdale area.

The puppy, which was too young to be vaccinated against the killer disease had to be put to sleep at the Myerscough Veterinary Group in Padiham.

Fears have now grown that the virus may have spread after several cases of the fatal condition were alerted in East Lancashire before Christmas.

Vets are warning dog owners of the dangers of not getting their dogs vaccinated.

Sue Holroyd, practice manager at Abbeydale Vets, which has branches in Blackburn, Whalley and Darwen, said: The area around Blackburn and Darwen is classed as a high risk area for the parvovirus. The disease has never gone away since it first became a problem in the 1970s.

The virus is very virulent and is very difficult to come back from once an animal has contracted it, with a very high percentage of the animals dying from it, even with treatment.

It is a lot more expensive to have to treat it than it is to prevent it.

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