Identifying and Preventing Tick-Borne Diseases

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Ticks come aplenty in Australia. Knowing that is a bit step to preventing the diseases that come with it from ever touching your beautiful fur babies.

Here’s a piece from Advantage Petcare called Tick-borne diseases in dogs: What are the risks for our pets, and for us? that gives us a good introduction to these diseases and how to keep our pets safe from them.

Babesiosis is transmitted to dogs from the brown dog tick, possibly the bush tick and even through dog bites. These ticks are common throughout Australia. Babesiosis is more prevalent in the subtropical and tropical northern regions of Australia, but has also been diagnosed in dogs from southeastern Australia. Dingoes can also be infected and act as a reservoir of the disease for pet dogs.

The rest of this fascinating piece has a more to offer so do check it out further.

 

Read the source article at advantagepetcare.com.au