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What actions are being taken to eradicate the heartworm disease?
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Heartworm disease is being eradicated with medication and medical drugs. Long periods of rest are required during treatment to prevent further outbreaks of the worms in the body. Preventative drugs are the main method of eradicating the worms and are used during certain periods when the worms are more active and likely to enter the body,
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Can pregnant dogs take heartworm medication?
It depends on the type of preventative being given. Consult your veterinarian about the specific medication you are using.
Can dogs catch heartworms from a cat?
Caused by Dirofilara immitis, heartworms are a potentially fatal parasitic worm living in the pulmonary arteries, lungs & hearts of cats. Heartworms are nematodes, a type of roundworm, they are several inches long, thin & white. Heartworms are a common parasite in dogs, although cats do become infected & may develop disease. While cats are more resistant to heartworm infestations than dogs, cats in particular are extremely vulnerable to heartworm & even a small number can lead to death. The disease is spread from mosquito to animals when the mosquito feeds from it's host. This is known as vector borne.
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Is being found negative of a disease good
How do dogs get heart worms?
The best advice is to take the dog to your veterinarian. The veterinarian will determine the condition of your dog and the best course of action to follow. Obviously, the typical course of action is to treat the dog for the disease. But here is the "preach." As the adage goes, "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Heartworm disease is easily prevented with the preventatives which are currently available. Routine heartworm testing is also strongly recommended. It is very expensive and risky to treat heartworm infected dogs, so thinking you are saving money by not heartworm testing and not giving preventative is ill-advised, just hoping your dog will not get heartworm disease. The treatment can be very dangerous and you must follow the recommendations of your veterinarian. When a dog or cat is wormed for intestinal parasites the worms are killed by the drug and pass out of the body in the feces. However, in heartworm disease, as the heartworms are in the heart and the blood vessels from the lungs, it is a "closed" system and if the worms are "killed" by the drug, they would be swept into the lungs, leading to sudden death. That is why the drugs used to treat heartworm disease are drugs that "slowly" kill the heartworms so that the body can slowly "absorb" them. In addition, it is important to keep the activity restricted as too much activity during the treatment period could cause the dying worms to move into the lungs quickly, causing severe problems. There is a relatively new protocol that has been recommended by the American Heartworm Society which veterinarians are familiar with and is very different from the old protocol that was used. There have been problems obtaining the drug which has been used for treatment (as of this writing) as it is in limited supply.
The state of being prtected against a particular disease is?
It means that you are immunised against that disease
Can rabbits get heartworms?
The regular host of canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) is the domestic dog, and its wild cousins the wolf, coyote, and fox. In these species the young heartworm is injected into the body by a mosquito, then travels to the heart where it grows into an adult worm. Rabbits have been reported as an aberrant host for canine heartworm, that is, it would be abnormal or atypical to have the parasite, and if they do, the worm would not behave as it would in its regular host. An example of this would be the worm degenerating and being encapsulated into a nodule in the rabbits lung. However, other species can get canine heartworm, such as cats, raccoons, deer, bears, ferrets, otters, seals and sea lions, lions, and tigers. Humans are also an aberrant host.
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Yes, these worms can damage heart valves and heart muscle and otherwise simply impede blood flow by being in the way all of which can lead to congestive heart failure.
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