Transmission of Equine Influenza Virus to English Foxhounds

• DOI: 10.3201/eid1403.070643
• Publication Date: 2008-10-14T22:18:37Z
• Authors: Janet M. Daly; Anthony S. Blunden; Shona MacRae; Jodi Miller; Samantha J. Bowman; Jolanta Kolodziejek; Norbert Nowotny; Ken C. Smith
• Keywords: equine influenza A H3N8 virus; Male; dogs; Pneumonia, Viral; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Disease Outbreaks; 0403 veterinary science; Influenza A Virus, H3N8 Subtype; Dogs; Orthomyxoviridae Infections; Animals; Dog Diseases; Horses; Retrospective Studies; R; Dispatch; dispatch; 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences; United Kingdom; 3. Good health; Interspecies transmission; Medicine; Female; Horse Diseases

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.