David B. Needle, a pathologist at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and clinical associate professor at the University of New Hampshire, and a team of researchers have been unable to identify it as any known canine respiratory disease.
The mysterious illness was described as an " atypical canine infectious respiratory disease," by the Oregon Department of Agriculture and symptoms include coughing, sneezing, eye or nose discharge and lethargy.
"Affected dogs may begin to show signs of lethargy, fever, decreased appetite, productive cough, nasal and / or ocular discharge, respiratory distress, or pneumonia," Justice said.
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