Sentences with phrase «carried by every infected dog»

In general, cats tend to harbor very few hookworms compared to the number carried by infected dogs.

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People can catch Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick that carries the bacteria, not through exposure to an infected dog.

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Heartworm is carried by larvae - infected mosquitoes, that then transmit it to your pet through their bite, directly into your dog's bloodstream and to its heart where the worms will hatch and begin to grow.

The diagnosis is further complicated by the fact that dogs infected with Babesia may also be infected with other diseases carried by ticks, such as Ehrlichia, Lyme disease, or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

In addition to the common signs of intestinal parasites in dogs (diarrhea, vomiting, weight loss, loss of blood, lethargy), many intestinal parasites carried by our pets can also infect humans, and can even cause symptoms as serious as permanent blindness.

Several tick species found in our region include the American dog (wood) tick that caries Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tick paralysis, the Lone Star tick that has gradually traveled to the eastern and southern regions of the country and carries Cytauxzoon felis, a life - threatening disease affecting domestic cats, and tularemia caused by direct with infected animals like rabbits and rodents from tick or fly bites, and the brown dog tick that carries babesiosis and ehrlichiosis.

A dog can only be infected by Heartworm after the bite of a mosquito carrying larvae.

Susceptible dogs become infected by ingesting the virus, which is then carried to the intestine where it invades the intestinal wall and causes inflammation.

Neither virus causes fatalities in healthy people, but there are several other arboviral infections (various encephalitis viruses, yellow fever, west Nile fever and Rift Valley fever) carried by the insect as well as a dog roundworm that also infects wild animals and cats.