Quote Originally Posted by lute
We have had 5 casses of Parvo at the vet clinic I work at this week. 5 THIS WEEK! Fortinatly 4 out of the 5 survived. All my dogs are UTD on their vacc. but I still worry if there is a chance that they could still get it off of me? I always bleach my shoes when I leave the Parvo recovery room at work and remove my scrub top before handling my dogs. Is there still a risk of my puppers getting Parvo even though they are all vacc.?
The only improvements I can think of is a foot bath with rubber boots and coveralls just outside the infected wing. Used that scheme with swine disease research, and some how managed to keep the uninfected controls ... uninfected.

If your dogs are 1 yr or better chances are you could deliberately expose them to parvo without any problems. Parvo is so endemic in dogs, exposure between adult dogs isn't unusual. Due to periodic exposure titers usually remain high, and fuels the debate about the need for revaccination after 3 yrs of age.

If under a year in age, there's always a chance for the parvo to break through the puppy vaccinations, mainly due to maternal antibody interference with the immunizations. Ask one of the Vets to explain to you the maternal antibody problem in parvo vaccinations.