Dog walkers warned over probably deadly new ‘flesh eating disease’

Vets have raised the alarm over experiences of recent instances of a terrifying illness that may show lethal to dogs. 

While uncommon, Alabama Rot could cause flesh to rot, in addition to blocking blood vessels in a canine’s pores and skin and kidneys. 

Cases of the situation have been more and more reported in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the North of England. 

The latest experiences have come from Dorset, close to Poundbury, the place Castle Vets noticed the illness in a small canine that has since tragically died. 

Alice Moore, from the follow, instructed The Sun: ‘We have had two cases in the last few weeks. It’s actually horrible to have our first case. 

‘It seems to be affecting outdoor dogs and those dogs that have walked in woodlands – they are assuming it is some toxin they are picking up on their feet. 

‘We are advising people to wash the dogs legs off when they come back in case it is something they are coming back with.’

The species most vulnerable to the illness are Labradors, spaniels and vizslas, although specialists say that finally all breeds are in danger. 

The earliest indicators are usually a patch of pink pores and skin that may grow to be sores beneath the elbow or knee or across the animal’s paws. 

Fatal kidney failure can begin inside ten days from the primary onset, and there’s no identified remedy. 

Moore added: ‘Because it’s a brand new illness and is rising, and we’re doing analysis, it’s laborious to suggest prevention – we nonetheless don’t know what causes [it].

‘In practice it is very hard to treat and it is why it frightens people. But people should not panic.’

Another case is at the moment being handled by specialist Anderson Moores in Winchester. 

Phoenix Canine Therapies, a scientific masseuse for dogs, instructed the newspaper of that case: ‘He is a healthy seven-year-old Labrador and they noticed the wound on the Tuesday last week. 

‘It was a tiny graze and became an ulcerated horrible thing and overnight it had become so much worse. 

‘The thinking is that it is in woodland but this dog did not walk in woodland, just on pavement and in fields.’

Reports have are available in from everywhere in the nation, together with Hampshire, North Yorkshire, Kent, Cornwall and Staffordshire, although the very best variety of confirmed instances have come from Greater Manchester, Dorset, Surrey, Devon and the New Forest.

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