ulceration

Effects of exposure can also include kidney and liver damage, nasal and skin irritation and ulceration, and eye irritation and damage, according to the U.S.

Jurors heard her death was a result of "inflammation and infection in extensive areas of ulceration arising from obesity and its complications, and immobility in a girl with spina bifida and hydrocephalus".

"Pugs often have protruding eyes whose lids don't meet, leading to ulceration. The list goes on."

The dog had lesions on its skin and mucous membranes, pustules on its abdomen and a thin anal ulceration.

A four-year-old Italian Greyhound tested positive for the virus in June after developing lesions, which included abdomen pustules and a thin anal ulceration, the British medical journal The Lancet reported.