This news item is about: The world’s first diagnostic test for canine pneumovirus, a unique culprit in canine respiratory illness common in shelters and kennels, is now available at Cornell’s Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC). Discovered in 2008 at the AHDC, the virus causes cell death in patterns unlike other viruses commonly found in dogs. Veterinarians had no way of identifying it from among the many pathogens causing canine respiratory illness until now.