A Michigan state department has said the dogs exhibited symptoms congruent with signs of canine parvovirus.
The disease is not transmissible to people or other animals.public service announcement on its Facebook pageThe post shared that multiple dogs had been reported to have become sick in the past month with what appeared to be parvo.
Reports of illness and deaths have come from outside Otsego County, Northern Michigan. According to the Otsego animal shelter, reports have been issued in Vanderbilt, Michigan, the City of Gaylord, west of Gaylord, and south of Gaylord. “We are still in the early stages of this investigation, but some of the first samples submitted to the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory were positive for canine parvovirus. However, there are more results pending and more to be learned,” Wineland explained. “When MDARD first learned of these cases in northern Michigan, we immediately reached out to the veterinarians and animal shelters involved and began our response efforts.