Resumen de CRGV in dogs visiting the New Forest
David Walker, L.P. Holm, Richard Newton, Catherine O'Conner
David Walker, Laura Holm, Richard Newton, Charlotte Robin and Catherine O'Conner comment: Ten of the 30 dogs reported with CRGV had been walked in the New Forest over the two weeks before developing skin lesions and/or developing other clinical signs. It is difficult to know at this stage whether this truly represents an increased disease incidence in the New Forest or an increased awareness of disease in that location. At the time of data collection there was little information available nationally to veterinary surgeons on this disease but local awareness was heightened by media interest in the disease, a letter written by one of the investigators to all local veterinary surgeons and continuing professional development events for local veterinarians. Data collection has continued since March 31, 2014 (the closing date for data inclusion in the paper) and to the end of March 2015 an additional 26 cases have been confirmed; only five of these cases had been walked in the New Forest.
As part of our investigations into this disease we developed a questionnaire for dog owners that collected information on a number of factors, including what dogs tended to do on their walks. To date this questionnaire has been completed by 475 dog owners. The data have allowed us to compare affected (confirmed cases) to unaffected dogs and have also allowed us to compare affected dogs to one another. To date we have found no environmental commonality between affected dogs and no differences between affected and unaffected cases. As will have been gathered from the paper, there is the possibility that CRGV does not have an environmental trigger.....
