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Salmon poisoning disease (SPD) is a fatal disease of dogs and other canids caused by a rickettsial bacterium, Neorickettsia helminthoeca. [2] It results from eating raw salmon, trout, or salamander and is common in the Pacific Northwest.
Pet owners are being warned to keep dogs away from dead fish after several cases of salmon poisoning were reported near Newport on the Oregon Coast. Pet owners are being warned to keep dogs away ...
Nanophyetiasis in dogs is much more serious than in humans. Scientists noticed almost 200 years ago that dogs that consumed raw fish sometimes died rather quickly. This "salmon poisoning", while associated with the trematode Nanophyetus salmincola, is not caused by the worm.
Ehnert’s advisory was issued after multiple dogs came down with Salmon Poisoning Disease between June 2023 and March 2024. “On March 22, 2024, an emergency veterinary practice in Pasadena, in ...
Sample of pink salmon caught off the Queen Charlotte Islands, Western Canada in 2009, infected with Henneguya salminicola. Diseases and parasites in salmon, trout and other salmon-like fishes of the family Salmonidae are also found in other fish species.
A parasite called Heterobilharzia americana, a flatworm commonly referred to as liver fluke, was behind the illness of the 11 dogs. The parasite normally makes its home in Texas and in the South.
Gyrodactylus salaris, commonly known as salmon fluke, [1] salmon killer, or the Norwegian salmon killer is a tiny monogenean ectoparasite which lives on the body surface of freshwater fish. [2] This leech-like parasite has been implicated in the reduction of Atlantic salmon populations in the Norwegian fjords . [ 3 ]
Praziquantel (PZQ), sold under the brandname Biltricide among others, is a medication used to treat a number of types of parasitic worm infections in mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish. [3]