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  1. So sorry to hear the problems Alex is facing. By chance I found the note below while looking up the disease by name:: A NEW vaccine against the parasitic disease leishmaniasis not only prevents the disease in dogs, it can cure them too. The experimental vaccine was developed by researchers at the French Institute for Research and Development in Montpelier, who report their results in Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, vol 106, p 247). They are now planning safety trials of the vaccine in people. Visceral leishmaniasis, which kills 200,000 people a year, is carried mainly by dogs, and spreads to people via sandflies. The drugs used to treat people with the disease are toxic, and the parasites are becoming resistant. Tackling the disease using drugs only increases resistance. I know nothing more about this and whether it helps dogs but perhaps somebody else in the forum can advise on whether this is true and available.Could Alex be included in any trial programme. A forlorn hope I know but.... Best wishes. Rugbygrampa
  2. Hi Rowan, Just wondering what's the latest on Alex. Best wishes.   Rugbygrampa
  3. Hi Rowan, It's a heart-rending tale. But it comes as we are anxious to fill the gap left by the death from old age of our English Setter Holly.We live in the beautiful Towy Valley in South Wales with countryside all around and would like to offer Alex a permanent home with love , excercise and all a dog could wish for . I don't know what exactly would be needed to bring him to Golden Grove but I'm sure the forum and any setter association would help. We would make every effort to travel wherever needed. "We"  includes my wife and myself, in our sixties, and we live in a large country house along with four cats and a pet peacock.I am a working broadcast journalist with BBC Radio Wales and my wife is an even harder working housewife permanently at home so there would always be someone to help Alex through his recovery.We can be contacted on  01558 668654. Gilbert John
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