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kestrel91316

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Fri Mar-17-06 10:06 PM
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25. What scares me is that we vets all have such a blase attitude

about respiratory Dz in cats.............dime a dozen, never a threat to humans, blah blah blah. But there are the occasional cases of cats or squirrels brought in to vets with nasty resp Dz and they turn out to have PLAGUE. One vet died of pneumonic plague years ago in Southern Cal, and a woman vet maybe 10 years ago in (IIRC) CO got pneumonic plague from a sick cat and actually lived to tell about it, after being felled in less than 24 hrs after exposure. And still we never even think of coughing/sneezing kitties as dangerous. How do we retrain our brains after decades of not worrying??? I am just as guilty of this as the next vet......

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