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Vets on alert for canine flu, but most dogs don’t need vaccine
By Sharon L. Peters, Special for USA TODAY
August 31, 2009 - As the nation braces for what could be a rough flu season, dog owners wonder whether their households might get hit with a second threat: canine flu.
A much-publicized outbreak of dog flu in Northern Virginia last week — the latest in scores of outbreak clusters from Miami to Denver in the past five years — has put the spotlight on the highly contagious disease, which doesn’t infect humans.