5 - The Quarantine Room

It is depressing to note that the majority of the canine breeding facilities is currently deprived of a quarantine room whereas this elementary precaution has proven for a long time its efficiency in the animals breeding production (bovine, porcine...).
Many epizootics could indeed be prevented with respect to some simple and cheap medical precautions.
Let us take the example of the canine herpes virus infection, an insidious viral infection affecting at least 30% of the French canine breeding facilities and generally resulting in transitory decreases of fertility (fertility or gestation disorders, neonatal mortality) in the absence of any other clinical expression.
This transmissible disease (venereal or respiratory) can be introduced in a breeding facility at the time of the purchase of a male appearing completely healthy and not exteriorizing any lesion.
The isolation of this newcomer during a forty day period before its final introduction into the breeding facility generally allows the realization of its medical status. It also prevents the propagation of the disease in the breeding facility, and "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". Moreover, the change in context often stresses an external dog; this generally leads to a transitory depression of its immune system. Consequently, this dog has more risks to exteriorize and propagate a disease in course of incubation or to contract an ambient germ which is non-dangerous for the other dogs (already vaccinated or immune).

The Quarantine Period

Conception of the Room

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