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Show :Dog: Yaccine -Available .at, CIMc- approximately one ' month a part at $8 per shot. It seems a small price to pay to one's pet. I.'"- f K v : r r. The White Pine Veterinary j Clinic is open everyday m v except Tuesday from V-X Two Veterinarians; Keith . ?. Lund and Buzz Marden also . ' : provide - a twenty-four hour '?. emergency seryice. According to Veterinarian, Keith Lund, at the Whtte-.pine Whtte-.pine Clinic 'at Kimball " "Junction they currently have a large supply of vaccine for v the Parvo Virus that has reached national epedemic proportions in dogs. Lund .explained the quick hirtin virus is similar to cat destemper and can kill a dog . in '48 hours. Young puppies under the age of four months old are the most susceptable to the virus, but deaths attributed to the virus have been found in four year old dogs as well. . . The virus was first recog- ; nized in 1977 and it thought to have originated on the east coast. ' ' Probably, ' ' said Lund "this is a virus that has been around for some time but just, recently became mutated to the point of being infectious."- The Parva Virus although like distemper found in cats, can only be transmitted from canine to canine. Humans maybe carriers of the disease but they do not contract it. The disease is passed by contamination from another dog's stool. Symptoms of the virus are diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, dehydra-tion, shock. What I see," said Lund, "is a sick, depressed dog." ; j Because the virus is contagious Lund suggests any dog who is in contact with other strange dogs be vaccinated. In Park City, that -would mean most every animal. , , , National as well a local news stories have pointed out the scarcity of. the vaccine. In one Salt Lake clinic alone Lund says they are vaccinating nearly 200 dogs a day. But the reason for the scarcity of tlje vaccine is becausbvthere is at this lime only, one company, Dellon of Omaha, Nebraska, that is manufacturing the vaccine. " , ' 4 For a ; while - we - were completely out "of the vaccine." vac-cine." said Lund "but now we have a good supply." Lund was quick to point out that there, was no epedemic of Parva Virus in Park City. "The people here have been really great about getting their -dogs vaccinated. vaccinat-ed. We have probably seen several hundred dogs already." al-ready." ' : Vaccinating your dog a-gainst a-gainst the: dreaded Parva Virus is a two step process; it requires a series of two shots |
