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Article: Panama City, Fla.-Area Dog Track Owners Cheer Possible 'Kennel Cough' Vaccine.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- June 20, 2003
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By Keith Saunders, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 20--PANAMA CITY, Fla.--Researchers may have found a new vaccine they say wards off canine infectious tracheobronchitis, an infection that has riddled Florida's pari-mutuel greyhound racing industry in recent months and has surfaced at Washington County's Ebro Greyhound Park.
More commonly known as kennel cough, the infection shut down three Florida dog tracks during March and April and has kept kennel and boarding facility owners in Bay County on alert.
Although approval for the vaccine could take as many as five years from the U.S. Department ...