A new canine disease that closed Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha for four weeks earlier this year will likely spread to domestic dogs and eventually infect wild canines such as coyotes and wolves, a top animal researcher predicted Friday.
The disease, a form of influenza, has killed dozens of dogs in six other states, but none died at Dairyland during an April and May outbreak that infected about 950 dogs, said Jenifer Barker, a veterinarian with the state Division of Gaming.
The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has tracked the disease for more than a year.