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Old Wed Feb 1, 2012, 11:55 AM
Lbrown Lbrown is offline
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Parvovirus causes some weird disease called Fifth's Disease - where you have red cheeks. I think dogs carry it. It is one of the main things they test for when you don't have enough red cells. Which makes me wonder what other types of virus / bacteria / fungal infections can also cause anemia that we don't yet know about. Infectious anemia is recognized in other animals.

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