{"id":125170,"date":"2026-02-06T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125170\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:08:53","slug":"veterinarian-died-of-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-while-operating-on-dog-in-queens-mobile-clinic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125170\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterinarian died of carbon monoxide poisoning while operating on dog in Queens mobile clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A veterinarian who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/02\/veterinarian-who-died-in-mobile-animal-care-van-wedged-in-snow-in-queens-worked-7-days-as-week-wife\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:died while operating on a dog inside a mobile animal care van;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">died while operating on a dog inside a mobile animal care van<\/a> in Queens succumbed to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, the city\u2019s medical examiner announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ashraf Hussein, 56, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/01\/man-and-dog-found-dead-inside-mobile-veterinary-van-in-queens-unconscious-man-outside\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:found dead inside the van;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">found dead inside the van<\/a> parked next to a thick snow bank on 65th Ave. and Parsons Blvd. in Flushing at about 9:25 a.m. Sunday. A small white dog that a co-worker said Hussein had been operating on to remove a mass in the animal\u2019s paw also died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The owner of the mobile vet clinic, Garo Alexanian, 73, was found unconscious outside the van by neighbors who called 911. Alexanian told a woman who came to his aid that he and the victim had been trapped inside the van for hours before he managed to escape and collapsed on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators suspect the poorly ventilated van was filled with fumes after the vehicle\u2019s exhaust pipe became packed with snow, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hussein worked for the mobile clinic for more than 15 years and had a close relationship with Alexanian, according to his wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hussein performed surgeries for the mobile clinic every Tuesday and Saturday, Hussein\u2019s wife told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe loves animals very much,\u201d said 46-year-old Marwa Mansour. \u201cThat\u2019s why he became a veterinarian, because he loved animals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A veterinarian who died while operating on a dog inside a mobile animal care van in Queens succumbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[54410,54408,54409,52356,52488,9,24,63,122,124,123,15902],"class_list":{"0":"post-125170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-animal-care-van","9":"tag-ashraf-hussein","10":"tag-carbon-monoxide-poisoning","11":"tag-garo-alexanian","12":"tag-mobile-clinic","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-veterinarian"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}