Transmission of Equine Influenza Virus to English Foxhounds

Abstract

We retrospectively demonstrated that an outbreak of severe respiratory disease in a pack of English foxhounds in the United Kingdom in September 2002 was caused by an equine influenza A virus (H3N8). We also demonstrated that canine respiratory tissue possesses the relevant receptors for infection with equine influenza virus.

Keywords

• Interspecies transmission
• equine influenza A H3N8 virus
• dogs
• dispatch
• United Kingdom