Dogs threatened by disease
Sydenham may have an outbreak of parvo-virus — a deadly, contagious dog disease.
Dog owners in Sydenham have been warned to have their dogs vaccinated against the disease, which has already affected three dogs in the suburb in the last week.
“We are talking about three dogs now, but if people don’t take it seriously there could be hundreds,” said a Beckenham veterinary surgeon, Mr Neville van Eerten.
A lot of people in Sydenham had not had their dogs vaccinated, he said. The parvo-virus injection cost about $lB.
The disease, one of the most contagious for dogs, was found only in the late 19705, said Mr van Eerten.
The veterinary clinic that Mr van Eerten works for managed to save the dogs treated in the last week, but treating a dog cost from $lOO to $2OO with no guarantee
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