My only experiency with campylobacter is in humans, where it can cause a nasty hemorrhagic gastroenteritis. Here is what the Center for Disease Control says about campylobacter jejuni:
"Even one drop of juice from raw chicken meat can infect a person. One way to become infected is to cut poultry meat on a cutting board, and then use the unwashed cutting board or utensil to prepare vegetables or other raw or lightly cooked foods." So obviously the dog could have become infected from raw meat, particularly if it was poultry, and that would be my first suspect. The BARF people say that campylobacter will not harm a normal dog. But if was carried by an asymptomatic dog to a puppy.....well, a puppy doesn't always have quite as developed of an immune system as a "normal dog". Campylobacter can also be carried by wild birds, so there is always the theoretical possibility that the dogs picked it up from bird droppings. Campylobacter can occasionally be transmitted from dogs to people, so remind your children about good handwashing after handling the dogs for the next couple days. Leanne ----- Original Message ----- she does feed a raw diet and my boy had what the > rest of the household was having for dinner, so my feelings are, that he > either picked something up at the show venue or the raw meat was > suspect. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
