Strep — United States
After responding to a case of animal hoarding, the Maury County Animal Shelter was again in contact with a rare illness that killed 3 dogs and led to the euthanization of 2 earlier this summer [2019].
Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles confirmed that the shelter was placed on lockdown last month [September 2019] and sterilized to prevent the spread of the disease, strep equi zooepidemicus, an emerging canine pathogen thought to cause a fatal pneumonia. One animal from the hoarding case was
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