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Commentary
Lab Confirmed H1N1 in
New York Dog
Recombinomics
Commentary 03:38
December 22, 2009
The above comments describe the first dog in the US to be H1N1 lab confirmed. This result was not a surprise. Earlier China had reported two dogs positive for H1H1.
However, the number of H1N1 cases in the US is the highest in the world, and the number of infected dogs is in the thousands, if not millions, but the first lab confirmed case was in December, 9 months after the first confirmed cases in the US.
In the case above, the dog's owner had tested positive for H1N1 a week earlier and is the likely source of the infection. However, the close contact between infected patients and pets, including dogs and cats suggests such transmissions are quite common, and raise concerns that the number of species transmitting H1N1 is much higher than the small number of lab confirmed cases in domestic and wild cats, dogs, ferrets, pigs, and turkeys. Although the above dog recovered, at least three pet cats have died, as have one or more ferrets.
The increasing number of species infected with lab confirmed H1N1 and the lack of testing of many obvious species, including livestock, continues to be cause for concern.
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