A.T.I.MA.NA. 2001 Leishmaniasis of the Neapolitan Mastiff

NeapolitanWorld has launched the re-publication of A.T.I.MA.NA. 2001 Leishmaniasis of the Neapolitan Mastiff, a disease first traced back as early as 1885, and making a devastating impact on the Neapolitan Mastiff since the 1990’s, and in the years of 2000 to 2006 ending the life of many important Mastini in the breed, to mention one name Bobo Dello Stradone Vesuviano, owner Salvatore Scherma.

Bobo Dello Stradone Vesuviano

Besides the clinical condition and the suffering of our breed, it has likely played a vital yet negative role by adding fuel to the fire for those whom already dislike and disapprove and are critics of our breed. To further explain this point, US and other countries have over the past decade dramatically increased the number of imports from Italy, a hot bed of the disease, yet Leishamiasis testing previous to 2008 has been nonexistent despite common Leishmaniasis symptoms in the overall population, which means that many conditions that could have been from a result of a parasite, were instead blamed on genetic problems and extreme breeding. It has recently became popular to trash the Neapolitan Mastiff, as a monster, a type of

Frankenstein

created by bad breeders, even within our own community as was the case of a USNMC Board of Director publicly trashing Bobo Dello Stradone Vesuviano for being a bad example, and a dog with “raging demodex”, despite common knowledge this particular dog suffered and died from Leishmaniasis, instead he was labeled another monster another Frankenstein by the critics of the breed. I believe it is time to turn the page on those days and that wrongly placed hate and critique, with more knowledge of owners on symptoms, free testing, and continued research perhaps this disease will soon be a problem of the past.

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