Sentences with phrase «numbers of worms infecting»

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There are a number of different worms that can infect our pets.

The severity of the disease actually depends on a lot of factors: the number of worms living inside the dog; the period as to how long the dog has been infected; and the dog's reaction to the disease.

Hookworms can cause a number of difficulties for the infected animal including anemia since these worms feed off the animal's blood by damaging the intestinal mucosa.

There are a number of types of worms that can be spread through the feces of an infected dog.

The severity of heartworms in cats is directly dependent upon the number of worms present a cat's body, the duration of the incubation, and the response of the infected cat.

Roundworms If a growing puppy is infected with a large number of roundworms, the worms can stunt the puppy's growth, cause serious digestive upset, and result in excessive gas formation.

While it is virtually impossible to know or estimate how many cases of heartworms can be prevented by the use of the Double Defense approach, it is quite obvious from our laboratory study that the number of infected dogs and the number of worms per infected dog would be greatly reduced by this approach.

Although it takes a number of years before dogs show signs of infection, once infected, it is a particularly deadly and nasty illness, with worms that have grown up to 10 inches in length clogging the heart, causing severely infected dogs to die suddenly during exercise or excitement.

Each mosquito season put animals at risk for developing the disease or growing numbers of worms in already infected animals.

However, because most infected cats have a low number of worms this does not occur often.

Internal parasites (such as worms) can infect your pet in a number of ways.

A: There are a number of intestinal worms that can infect dogs and cats, and they vary according to the species.

The number of infected devices has grown to over 7,000 and is increasing rapidly, with malicious software acting like a computer worm that is trying to spread to any uninfected device it can reach.