It is a little different. Vets like Delver and private practitioner Gord Krebs are carefully watching the progress of this strain called Pan Asian type 0. About two percent of adult animals die and 20 percent of young animals die.
Young animals are more susceptible because the disease attacks their growing heart muscles.
Complete recovery may take months or even years. Survivors become carriers and continue to spread the virus, which persists in all body fluids including milk, dead skin, semen and embryos. There are more than 1,200 confirmed cases in Britain and 1.5 million animals have either been slaughtered or are scheduled to be killed. The disease starts as blisters full of virus particles. The particles become airborne when the blister ruptures and quickly spreads.