If you've read a dog-related e-mail list, Internet forum or blog in the last week, or spent any time in a dog training class, dog park or at a dog show, you've probably heard about a deadly new strain of canine parvovirus that's sweeping the United States. People say it's not only deadlier than regular canine parvovirus, but that the existing vaccines don't protect against it.

These warnings all cite a press release from Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory as their source, and most of them include a link to that release to back them up. This isn't, they seem to be saying, your usual unsubstantiated Internet rumor, spread without checking by some digital Paul Revere of the dog world. No, they're saying this is true, it's here, it's bad and it's something you and your dogs need to be worried about.

So, is any of (more...)