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Northridge Pet Hospital

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  • Feline Distemper
    Category: We Help Your Pet With, Diseases and Viruses

    Feline distemper or feline panleukopenia is a highly contagious viral disease of kittens and adult cats caused by the feline parvovirus. It is also called panleukopenia as it affects the bone marrow and causes low white blood cell counts. It is relatively common in unvaccinated cats and is often fatal,

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  • Leptospirosis
    Category: We Help Your Pet With, Diseases and Viruses

    Leptospirosis is a serious, life-threatening disease caused by a spiral shaped bacteria. Dogs, cats, other animals and even people can be infected through exposure to urine, bite wounds, ingestion of infected flesh, or contact with contaminated soil, water and even bedding. Certain environmental conditions

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  • Canine Distemper
    Category: We Help Your Pet With, Diseases and Viruses

    Canine distemper is caused by a virus that is shed in bodily fluids of infected animals. The virus affects primarily the lungs, intestines, and nervous system. Symptoms of the infection can include coughing, diarrhea, vomiting, inappetance, dehydration, weight loss, seizures, and encephalitis. Secondary

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  • Salmonella
    Category: We Help Your Pet With, Diseases and Viruses

    Salmonella is a bacterium that can cause disease in humans, dogs, cats, and other animals. It can cause a variety of symptoms, commonly vomiting and/or diarrhea, but also severe infections and septicemia. It can also cause abscesses, meningitis, bone infections, and abortion. Salmonella is found worldwide

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  • Rabies
    Category: We Help Your Pet With, Diseases and Viruses

    Rabies is a fatal viral infection that is transmitted primarily through bite wounds. Skunks, bats, raccoons, and foxes are the primary carriers. Rabies is also fatal to humans, there has been only one case of a person surviving rabies when treatment was started after clinical signs were present. Puppies

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  • Canine Parvovirus (CPV)
    Category: We Help Your Pet With, Diseases and Viruses

    The Parvovirus is known worldwide and causes disease in many different species of animals. Different strains of virus only infect certain types of animals. For example, the Canine Parvovirus (Parvo) will mainly infect dogs and does not cause disease in cats or humans. Feline Parvovirus, a different strain

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Tuesday:

9:00 am

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Wednesday:

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Thursday:

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  • "I've been taking my dogs and cats to them since we moved here to LA since 1999 and have received excellent care in both sending our fur babies over the rainbow. Now with our current zoo they provide great care for them all!"
    Tien N. / Northridge, CA

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