Update: 5th October 2017: The All Alabama Rot cases map confirmed, unconfirmed and suspected cases produced by alabamarot. Vets4Pets confirmed Alabama Rot cases map. Other than breed sex age. Are you noting if any vaccines for anything were administered. The dogs that survived seem few. Had they or not been vaccinated and when. Had they had it been using anytype of flea it tick control. Worming medications Any other medications for arthritis, etc etc. Are the results entered into a computer program looking for connections or are you relying on busy vets to share experiences. Like two years ago I took the effort to look at the cases in the areas we plan to visit. Austel, Looe, Torquay the Yorkshire Coast Out of the 146 over the past 6 years 24 cases per year for this region there wer 65 % in the first 4 months and 27% in november and dezember. At least we summer tourists are more on the safe side of it all. Not much help, but a little. Until we know a lot more you would not have people how have a sever infection travel around the country ,not knowing what it is. Is there any consensus among the vets who have had some success treating these dogs as to which antibiotic is having most success and what are the best treatments to protect the kidneys?. I hope that these vets are communicating with each alabama rot uk map. Surely the best information should be transmitted to a central agency. This is only my humble theory but I hope if true it might help as I have not seen even the suggestion of it being fungal. I would love to hear back if anyone has anything to say regarding the theory. Nov 21st 2017 we lost Jake an 11 year old sprollie. A very handsome wonderful dog. Jake was the first case in Staffordshire and for my vets. All the media have been supportive and interested in this story and they will listen to you. Example, my other dog Meg had at the time Jake became ill two nasty red sores on the inside of her rear legs, she was given antibiotics and after Jake passed we continued with her medication and they cleared up, her condition was considered to be Dermatitis she had never had this before and not since. Theas type of sores in my opinion could be misdiagnosed as Dermatitis because different dogs can present with different types of sores. Why did the two wippets survive, was it a different strain or were the dogs immune system different??. The questions I have are many. In Staffordshire we have a focal point where the three confirmed cases walked on Cannock Chase prior to illness and maybe linked to a water pool or the muddy terrain close by. One survival case was walked in the same area. I will be pushing for water and mud samples from this area as they are not so spaced out as the cases in the New Forest. The more we talk, shout and publicise this disease hopefully the more gets done. Thanks for reading and look after your dogs. Hi Phil, I have been reading your story with a lot of interest being a dog owner myself. First af all may I pass on my sincere condolences for the loss of a beloved dog. I walk the Chase on various routes around the visitors centre for at least two hours every day. I have tried to cut out all the wooded areas and really muddy paths. I take out about 9 litres of water and towels so that i can wash her before she even gets back in the car to go home. This frightens me as she may be playing with an infected ball. She is a very active collie cross, a rescue dog who we love very much. I try to get as much information as i can to see what other dog owners in this area are doing or saying, but information is not very forthcoming on social media, and other dog owners I talk to on the Chase say we just have to take our chances and that there is a lot of scaremongering going on. I dont believe this myself, but what alternative do i have. I cant not take her for her daily exercise. X Hi Janet, thanks for reading and for taking the time to reply. As you probably know my Jake was a collie cross Sprollie and we had him for ten years, we loved him dearly and miss him every day. This is not scaremongering or creating a panic my story like others is one of reality that I and others had healthy fit dogs that contracted this disease and died. All the evidence suggests wet muddy woodland terrain and my entire focus is to push this as far as I can to get answers so that all dog owners feel safe wherever they go. I want to know what killed my dog and will not stop talking until there are answers. This is not a stay off Cannock Chase campaign but it is a Alabama Rot Disease campaign to understand the devastation that it can cause. All the media attention that ive secured has been to try and help all dog lovers be aware not to scaremonger. Generally other than the forestry alabama rot uk map everyone is helpful and supportive. There is a fear though of alot of misdiagnosed cases due to so little being known about it and I personally believe the numbers are bigger than reported. In terms of what you do with your dog at least you are doing it with knowledge!. At the end of the day none of us want any dog to die from this. I have nothing to gain from spending all this time pushing for answers as my Jake will not come back but as a community we need progress. Love and care for your dog and enjoy them every day. I agree which what you say about misdiagnosed cases. As I said, I do not believe that, we must all listen but most of all we should all talk about it and spread the word. I encounter many people on my walks who are elderly Phil and do not have access to the internet, it worries me that they do not have enough information on taking precautions to prevent their dog from falling ill. People must accept that this is a real problem and as you say, we should all talk about it, we should shout about it and we should help to publicise in the hopes that more will be done. Keep us all informed on anything that you can find out. Again, condolences on the loss of Jake and best wishes for a complete recovery for your Meg. I feel that the disease has given us a bit of a curve ball in a recent confirmed case in Leek Staffordshire. New figures out show now 122 cases and 37 in 2017 with the worst months to come Feb and March. Something more has to be done. This would account for some dogs not walking in Woodland or Forest areas contracting the disease. Aeromonas Hydrophila is an environmental bacteria so could be anywhere. In the meantime please keep loving and caring for your best mates by washing their feet, legs and belly after wet walks. Thanks Phil My dog had a nasty sore I thought perhaps it was glass because that had happened before. It got better and the sore is now brown for a while. He is a town dog Brighton. I had to remove a tick from my dog I had never spotted one before. I think it is a disease I wanted to wash my hands when I touched the sore. He has made a full recovery. Would be interested if a dog can get this only once as well. Sore was on front paw. The photo looks like a oval shape like pictures seen on google. Where it was red is now brown and the ulcer type alabama rot uk map is at least four times size of his nail. Alabama rot uk map this helps and I sure my dog is well now. Amending last comment affected area is four times size of first nail it s behind that this is a bald patch. He is unconcerned about paw. Also I have come to the conclusion that it is down to the tick he had. Getting more agile now bounding onto bed etc. A lot of ideas bandied about here but a tick is dangerous. Read up on them and horrified to say the least. He had spit treatment which kept him flea free but he had a tick. Very important to remove tick properly. I read the ulcers are a symptom of illness. Hope this is of help. I note that the Midlothian case from almost a year ago is still marked as suspected, and no new cases appear to have been registered in the database. This raises a few questions for me about being able to assess risk for our dog. Since I am not clear whether there has been any further spread of cases in Scotland or not. Is there an obligation for vets to report to you. If not what do you estimate is the compliance in reporting. If a suspected case is reported, how is a case confirmed and is there any obligation on the treating vet to confirm given the case in Midlothian remains an unconfirmed one. I know there are 101 things that can make dogs vomit, but I note that Kings Lacy is a wooded are in otherwise open countryside downwind of Lulworth depleted uranium firing range and the decommissioning of nuclear reactors and installations at Winfrith. The fact you kept yours on a lead and they only vomited — rather than suffering lesions and kidney failure — suggests to me again, rightly or wrongly that there is a contaminant of some kind, and your dogs inhaled or ingested less owing to their being on a lead at all times presumably you were unable to stop them sniffing the ground. With poisoning, the amount is critical, so to me this suggests poisoning by some contaminant. The government, nuclear and arms industries here have a record of secrecy and disinformation 3 months to admit to the melt-downs at Fukushima, and complete cover-up at Sellafield Windscaleso we would not hear too much of this in the mainstream press. The use of depleted uranium at Lulworth was also kept quiet, and emerged only afterwards. You were not even given the chance to move away or stay indoors. Personally, I would not trust information from anyone the government appoints to look into this. As the vets say they are all out of ideas it seems we just have to keep on taking my own precautions, as you have. Hi Emma, Who on earth told you that. Do you really imagine that the nuclear industry that dumped waste in oil drums in the English channel for decades would stop short at decommission buildings in the open air whilst it is supplying depleted uranium to firing ranges yards from where we live. Please share with us your secret — how you can feel so untroubled by that when all this is happening and our dogs are dying, and neither you, nor the vets have a clue what is causing it. Do you know where the dogs were walked in the Wimborne cases. Is it possible for a location to have low lying levels of it thus causing mild symptoms??. Negative for parvo and other usual suspects. Antibiotics made the dogs and puppies go downhill quickly. Our vets were all dumbfounded. Also could all these ill dogs with bloody vomit and diaorrhea whose owners are blaming the Lepto 4 vaccine be connected. Our dog was diagnosed with Alabama Rot having walked around there in 2014. We believe he contracted it at Godshill. Feel free to add him to the survivors page too. This is a link to case: He alabama rot uk map in intensive care for a week where he received plenty of fluids via a drip and thankfully appears to have made a full recovery. We have family in the New Forest area and we have not taken our dog back to the region since 2014, but we now are considering a return and want to access the risks. S Thanks for this great site. We have 3 veterinary practices in the area and I might ring tomorrow as being a woodland dog walker myself I am anxious to find where the dog was normally walked. I have heard hearsay it was a labrador. I am surprised nobody is coming forward on Facebook with more information. From the symptoms described, i. You might want to make sure no contaminants can be licked into their system — meaning that you might want two tubs, one for washing off and one for rinsing. Even the postman who after all is all over the area. That finding would not be good for the Nuclear industry — and damning for our anti-green, anti-renewables, heavily-nuclearly-invested government — especially at the moment, with the Hinkley Point fiasco and all. You might even buy a cheap Geiger they are cheaper than dogs and test the build-up in the water. You might want to also water your dogs. Maybe take a bottle of water in a rucksack on long walks. Keep unwashed dogs and babies or any children as far apart as you can — just in case. Kids rolling in the grass, picnics on the ground. Is anywhere safe to exercise our dogs. Is this an area for our Scientists to study to see if there is a connection with Alabama Rot. As these areas are also the natural habitats for wild deer, pheasants and other animals, their faeces are often trodden in or eaten by our dogs — is there a connection with E. The water from the woodland will also drain over open fields where sheep graze. Sorry for all of the above questions but I and other dog owners are desperate for researches to find a cause and cure for this dreadful disease. Thank you to all who are helping in the research. Hi Trevor, thanks for your post. I too live by the sea Bournemouth and exercise my dog on alabama rot uk map beach — whilst being on the lookout for palm oil. An environmental trigger is strongly suspected but has not been confirmed. Perhaps the urine of an infected dog carries the germ which transfers to other dogs as they sniff it or walk over it?. Just an observation from looking at the map — does it not seem odd that the concentration of cases confirmed or not confirmed seem to be those nearest ports, i. Wales, Scotland, East Anglia, Ireland have nothing…. I was sent a warning,c above link, from Willow Vet that these chews from China cause kidney damage. Also has anyone tabulated the food and other items consumed like chews ,pond water etc. He had been walked in New Forest on holiday before fungus struck. It caused nasal bleeding and breathing problems. No lesions, but just wondered if this is strange coincidence that fungus started after visit to New Forest. alabama rot uk map Your map shows 3 green diamonds in the Swindon area, yet green diamonds do not appear in the list of what markers mean. The implication is 3 cases. This is scaremongering of the worst type. I would like to know if the affected dogs have been running free or if they have been in water. I would imagine that foxes could also catch this disease, does anyone know if it can be caught from another animal. Very much unconfirmed but suspect lesion found on a dog in woolston southampton, lively and an escape artist hes very keen on humping, we tried everything sorry, but its on his nutsack… his primary point of contact with other dogs. Its got me worried as no less than 2 minutes after noticing it. That i saw the hampshire news report on the subject… It looks like it might just be a graze that got infected but looking at the photos of the lesions pictured it seems to be something like human impatigo. Im not a vet and just guessing, i very much hope my dog doesnt have it,, but the coincidence of this news story. I wish all of those whove lost dogs to this the best its a really terrifying condition… An awareness campaign. Your efforts might have just saved his life… I think a conversation and investigation into this in the minds of the countries dog walkers especially those of us in the new forest… is very necesaary. If theres a vet in soutrhampton whose expertise is geared to this…?. One line of questioning that the vets have noted is that 43% of dogs in contact with confirmed Alalbama rot dogs get skin lesions but did not get Kidney failure hope my figs are correct so I wonder alabama rot uk map any unsociable dogs ie those kept on a lead and not coming into direct contact with other dogs on a walk have ever got Alabama rot?. Maybe this is information that unfortunate owners could supply. I have several dogs and some love to socialise but a couple do everything to avoid contact and are kept on a lead in populated places so do not have direct contact, of course a bacteria or virus can survive in the environment for a set time which may be where the mild wet comes in. Also if some get lesions but not kidney failure you have the possibility of milder cases being carriers. But I know the vets have looked for viruses and bacteria and so far have found nothing specific. I hope funds continue to come in to make sure they can continue aggressive research into this horrid disease. Hi Matthew, If I have details of breed, age, sex they can be got by clicking the individual marker. It has to get through the mouth or nose into the digestive or respiratory system. The disease shuts down organs. But Ball orientated dogs having their tennis balls through in affected areas and picking it up with their mouths are also at risk. So where ever this disease is any dog is at harm. The real name of the disease is Cutaneous and Renal Glomerular Vasculopathy. It causes lesions on the skin and occasionally in the mouth, which can look like bites, sores, wounds or stings. Some dogs go on to develop life-threatening kidney failure. Any age, sex, or breed of dog can be affected. The cause alabama rot uk map this time remains unknown but investigations are ongoing. How do I stop my dog from getting Alabama Rot. Unfortunately, as the cause is currently unknown, it is very difficult to give specific advice about prevention. The current advice is to bathing any area of your dog which becomes wet or muddy on a walk; however, at this stage we do not know if this is necessary or of any benefit. How will I know if my dog gets Alabama Rot. Unexplained redness, sores or swelling of the skin particularly on the paws or legs but also the body, face, tongue or mouth are often the first sign of this disease. For dogs that develop Kidney failure they commonly show signs of inappetance, lethargy and vomiting at which point immediate veterinary assistance alabama rot uk map be sought. Please note: This information is taken from www.
