This is patently untrue. The circovirus is a
family of viruses! They are not interchangeable. The avian circovirus is not the porcine circovirus or the canine circovirus. Your dog having the circovirus (which is that canine flu that they were creating mass hysteria about.....and which affected a miniscule amount of dogs) in no way will spread the disease to avians. Very few viruses in the grand scheme of things actually cross species.
As a side note, it is getting very tiresome when people go off half cocked and stoke the flames of mass hysteria when they spread their own personal theories and ideas that are plainly uneducated. If the virus were so easily spread then it would sweep across the nation like an epidemic.....but it doesn't. Vet offices would be disease factories.....they aren't. Vets that handle PBFD birds do not go through full hazmat decontamination procedures before seeing their next client.....because that simply is not necessary to prevent the spread. Breeders with one positive result would lose their entire stock.....they don't. Once one wild cockatoo in a flock is infected they all would be......they aren't, not even remotely.
Yes, there are areas of the world where the disease is rampant, but those areas are also areas where birds are brought in enmass after being captured from the wild, shoved by the dozens into tiny crates where they cannot even turn around, transported in extremes of heat and cold, fed substandard diets (if they are fed at all) watered with hoses sprayed over the packed cages, with no treatment for any injuries suffered during transport or capture. Something like 50+% of the birds brought in this way die during the process.....of course the remaining birds in those conditons will be at exceptional risk for contracting diseases. It is the same darn reason human refugee camps are breeding grounds for disease and death.
I'm also going to say this to
@Reeny, I have spent the last 24 hours trying my darnedest to find any medical literature talking about bone marrow suppression in
acute PBFD cases....there is nothing. I've shown this thread to my vet who does not at all agree that this is the way young PBFD birds typically present or pass. The circovirus test you have received a positive result for is only, and I repeat
only, an antigen test. It is not and never will be a diagnosis. The only conclusion that a single positive test can definitively reach is that your bird was exposed to the circovirus at some point in time. Without corresponding histiopathological and physical findings it is impossible to medically conclude that your bird died from circovirus (PBFD) or complications there of. Maybe there is more information that has not been shared here, but what has been shared does not explain cause of death. No decent medical practitioner makes a definitive diagnosis based on a positive antigen test only.....veterinary or otherwise. It is bad medicine to do so!
better than powerful disinfectants.
