Beagle Dogs Have Low Susceptibility to Florida Clade 2 H3N8 Equine Avian Influenza

Dear Editor,Dogs were long considered refractory to influenza viruses until the equine-origin H3N8 canine influenza virus(CIV)was first isolated in the United States of America(U.S.A)in 2004(Crawford et al.2005).Since then,H3N8 CIV of equine-origin strains has been circulating in dogs in the U.S.A.In 2006,another CIV of avian origin H3N2 subtype was isolated from dogs in China(Li et al.2010).Recently,H3N2 CIV strains have become endemic in dog populations in China,South Korea,and North America(Borland et al.2020).