How Does Heartworm Treatment Work
Keeping your dog free of heartworms is an important job. It’s your responsibility to have your dog tested yearly for the disease and to renew...
How Ticks Hunt You And How To Avoid Them
Your complete guide to the horrifying reality of tick season. A female tick lurks, waiting for her next host. CDC/Public Health Library You're probably already...
How To Know If You Have Lyme Disease
Approximately 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported each year around the world. The bacterial infection is transmitted by tick bites, especially deer ticks, making...
Relentless March of Lyme Disease Is A Ticking Time Bomb
[caption id="attachment_145685" align="aligncenter" width="626"] Ixodus ricinus tick, which spreads Lyme disease in Europe. Richard Bartz , CC BY-SA[/caption] On any ranked list of nasty diseases...
The Terrible Terror of Ticks-Fear is Justified
Ticks are the scourge of the summer months, and they're not just pesky, they can be deadly. Ticks carry all sorts of disease, some of...
Researchers Discover New, Crippling Tick-Borne Disease
Ticks, best known for carrying Lyme disease, are now getting renewed attention over a newly published study. Researchers from China and the University of Maryland...
Memorial Day-Operation Mayday and Lyme Disease
Memorial Day weekend is upon us and with the holiday comes a lot of outdoor activity, which includes walking in the woods, picnicking in the...
Furry Friends: 5 Key Health Considerations for Your Dog
As you probably were well aware, your dog is more than a best friend — without question, she's a member of your family. But your...
What you Need to Know About Vaccines for Dogs-Part One
I’m afraid that sometimes I get distracted by the more esoteric aspects of veterinary medicine — the latest and greatest treatment for some rare disease...
Third World Parasite Attacking Americans
There are literally millions of diseases out there that can make you very sick, and even kill you. Fortunately, many of them are resident in third world countries, not the United States.
Ticks: 2012 to be “horrific” year for tick borne disease
They can wait for months, clinging to the edge of a blade of grass or a bush, for the whiff of an animal’s breath or vibration telling them a host approaches.
Lyme Disease Infections May Inundate Northeast U.S.
The northeastern United States faces potentially “the worst year yet” for Lyme disease and other tickborne infections because of the periodic abundance of a little-noticed component of the disease’s complex ecology: acorns.