New Parvo Strain Discovered

July 4, 2008

I’m still in the midst of switching over to Linux on my desktop PC. So far, I will be running a quad boot with Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE4), Fedora 9, and OpenSUSE. And oh yeah…did I mention that I’ve lost every bit of 4 years of data I had on my Windows install?

Anyway, I’ve come out of all this to report what I’ve stumbled upon. It’s a new strain of the Canine Parvovirus (CPV). Here’s some of the findings from Oklahoma State University:

OSU Laboratory First to Discover a Virus in United States – OADDL Identifies A New Canine Parvovirus

STILLWATER,
Okla.—a team of Oklahoma State University (OSU) veterinarians,
virologists and pathologists at the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic
Laboratory (OADDL) recently published a paper in the Journal of
Clinical Microbiology on their findings from a Canine parvovirus (CPV)
study. Led by Dr. Sanjay Kapil, the group is the first to describe the
CPV type 2c variant in the United States.

“We were quite fortunate to discover this variant,” explains Kapil.
“It has been known for six years in Italy but nobody paid attention to
it here until we found it last year.”

Shortly after Kapil joined the OSU Center for Veterinary Health
Sciences, he received a case at the OADDL. The adult dog had been
vaccinated multiple times and still became sick with Parvovirus.