Coccidia is in the dirt and most dogs actually have this in their intestines....the immune systems in older/adult dogs usually keep this from flaring up. Stress is a great precipitator and will cause a dog or puppy to "break" with coccidia....usually, anytime you have a pup for a week and you start to see diarrhea with blood tinged mucus in it, that pup is "breaking" with coccidia from the stress it is experiencing with new home, new people, gone siblings and no momma, etc.......usual treatment is Albon along with Amoxicillin and Flagyl. Cody is a rescue, so he more than likely picked this up long before you ever got him and it is dormant in his intestine. I do NOT think it is transmitted to humans...I do not remember anything in any literature I have about coccidia, that humans can get it. |