BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green-Warren County Humane Society has seen a recent spike in parvo cases, with very few infected dogs surviving.

“So we have seen in the last three weeks about 40 cases of parvo, and I would say 85, maybe 90% of those are coming from the public,” adoption counselor Katlyn Hare says.

The humane society has noticed it’s mainly from dogs being dropped off at the shelter.

“Obviously, we do see that virus here in the shelter just because we are such a high-intake facility. It’s impossible to deter every single illness and every disease here in a shelter. But we are doing free vaccines, and that is the only way to prevent this virus, which is deadly. We had a litter of 11 puppies come in a couple Sundays ago, and only three or four of the litter survived, so

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