Symptoms of respiratory illness in dogs include coughing, sneezing, nasal or eye discharge and lethargy. Some cases of the pneumonia progress quickly, making dogs very sick within 24 to 36 hours.

An infectious respiratory disease among dogs that continues to baffle veterinarians has now been reported in at least a dozen US states, from Washington, Oregon and California to New Hampshire ...

Symptoms of respiratory illness in dogs include coughing, sneezing, nasal or eye discharge and lethargy. Some cases of the pneunomia progress quickly, making dogs very sick within 24 to 36 hours.

Should I avoid boarding my dog because of the mystery illness? Ideally, yes. Lippman said that any area where there are a lot of dogs in one space could be high risk for disease transmission.

Owners bring their dogs to a park in Los Angeles. Veterinary laboratories in several states, including Oregon, Colorado and New Hampshire, are investigating an unusual respiratory illness in dogs ...

Experts say antibiotics may not be necessary to treat mystery dog illness. Dr. J. Scott Weese, a professor at Ontario Veterinary College and an expert in infectious animal diseases, ...

STORY: Hummer, a young mixed-breed dog, walks around a variety of samples until he finds what he’s searching for – the scent ...

A veterinarian examines a dog inside a Pasadena pet hospital in Aug. 2023. A fatal "mysterious illness" has appeared in several US states recently.

Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by a parasite. The parasite is a single-celled protozoan that gets into the bloodstream of dogs and leads to serious illness. It can also affect cats and humans.

The first evidence for their ability to smell disease, published in The Lancet in 1989, was of a dog sniffing and biting a woman’s mole, which turned out to be a melanoma 1.