From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-06-10 14:36:14 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: How to deal with possible heart worm exposure?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
We just picked up Revolution (cat 5 to 15 pound size, full vial per ferret
for heartworm avoidance) ourselves yesterday and have to apply it today.
Avoiding heartworms takes a higher amount of it than the other used
for it do.
We are in NJ which used to have almost no heartworm but the number of
cases is worsening.
Here is a heartworm general reference and map from 2005.
Remember, though, that in many areas the rate and spread of heatworm
increased by leaps and bounds after Hurricane Katrina (August 2005)
because at first the animals who were being gotten out of that area to
save them were not having heartworm screenings so some of those would
not have shown up till the 2006 census and the mosquitos they spread it
to would have infected some animals showing up even later...
I recall reading of some areas throughout the U.S. which had almost no
heartworm before where the risk situation changed literally overnight.
http://www.heartwormsociety.org/article.asp?id=17
Do people on other continents know which URLs exist for their heartworm
maps?
People in Europe should look at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15885913
which is among 32 articles that Pubmed has on it in Europe
for those in Central or South America:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16198820
and there is at least one more
Pubmed has 20 articles on it in Asia
and a quick skim of a search on
heartworm Australia
shows that it has wound up introduced there but I don't know
if it has established itself.
So, wherever you happen to be check on local prevalence with
your own veterinarians.
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