heartworm

Red Dog is suspected of having heartworm and has treatment for it.

But within eight months, heartworm and then the first of several cancers were diagnosed.

This may well be the most significant medical consequence of human infection by the dog heartworm.

I had to pick up a new supply of heartworm pills last week at my veterinarian's office.

An antibody test is also available for feline heartworm infection.

If he were a younger dog I'd say parvo or heartworm, which is a parasite.

You're saying it could be parvo or heartworm, but you don't really think it's either of these?"

However, active dogs and those with heavier infections may show the classic signs of heartworm disease.

Because of this, differences between canine and feline heartworm diseases are significant.

"To treat a dog when it has heartworm is expensive, and the life of the animal is endangered."

Beat beat heat burrowing into the heart like heartworm.

At one time, the dog heartworm was thought to infect the human eye, with most cases reported from the southeastern United States.

Prevention of heartworm infection can be obtained through a number of veterinary drugs.

He discovers that dogs with heartworm, an easily treated disease, were killed and their heartworms sold to researchers.

Diagnosis of heartworm infection in cats is problematic.

The dog heartworm is of negligible public health risk, because it is unusual for humans to become infected.

Other potential causes in dogs include heartworm disease, heart disease, and pulmonary abscesses.

Brisbin noted that this was most likely to ensure quick breeding before diseases, like heartworm, take their toll.

The low-dose heartworm pill was harmless, particularly to a fetus at so late a stage of gestation.

Treatment typically consists of putting the cat on a monthly heartworm preventive and a short-term corticosteroid.

The prognosis for feline heartworm disease is guarded.

But again, we commonly see toxo in pound dogs or strays, and I'm sure he's had his heartworm medications.

The heartworm is a type of filaria, a small thread-like worm, that causes filariasis.

Although at one time confined to the southern United States, heartworm has now spread to nearly all locations where its vector, the mosquito, is found.

Preventive drugs are highly effective, and when regularly administered, will protect more than 99% of dogs and cats from heartworm.