Parvovirus Cases Rise in Kimberly With Vets treating up to 12 Dogs a Week. ABC News 27/8/25

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-27/deadly-dog-disease-parvovirus-rife-in-west-kimberley/105647182

[tdierikx]

Vaccinations might cost a bit, but treatment for Parvo (or even euthanasia) is much more expensive... 

 

Maybe vets could be more active in advising that there is a vaccination for Parvo alone if owners are too cash strapped to go the full C3 or C5 vaccinations - at least they'd be covered for the more prevalent of the 3 killer diseases in dogs. Distemper and Hepatitis are around, but definitely much rarer in domestic dogs that don't come into contact with wild animals or their scat.

 

T.

[asal]

Well remember Ivor Slezachek BVSc telling me that "Mt Druit was the biggest vector of unvaccinated dogs and cat's in the Sydney basin. After a strong Easterly he would be getting up to a dozen a day with parvo being brought to his surgery in Stafford St Penrith."

So plenty of unvaccinated dogs in Penrith too....

[Rebanne]

On 28/08/2025 at 4:22 AM, tdierikx said:

Vaccinations might cost a bit, but treatment for Parvo (or even euthanasia) is much more expensive... 

 

Maybe vets could be more active in advising that there is a vaccination for Parvo alone if owners are too cash strapped to go the full C3 or C5 vaccinations - at least they'd be covered for the more prevalent of the 3 killer diseases in dogs. Distemper and Hepatitis are around, but definitely much rarer in domestic dogs that don't come into contact with wild animals or their scat.

 

T.

Many, many years ago, like in the 80's, vaccination schedules were: one year parvo alone, the next a c3. I had vets in rural and capital city that followed this.