Author: Katie Langford

Fewer dogs are getting sick from a mysterious, potentially fatal respiratory disease that has surged among Colorado canines this fall, but researchers are still trying to answer questions about the disease’s origins. Colorado State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital and the Colorado Department of Agriculture reported that the number of respiratory illnesses in dogs doubled this fall, mirroring similar outbreaks in Oregon, California, Florida and New Hampshire. Although respiratory diseases are common in dogs, this particular strain caused dogs to cough for weeks and resulted in more cases of pneumonia. In some cases, the dogs died from the disease. In a…