From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-06-10 14:46:52 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: How to deal with possible heart worm exposure?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I wonder if canine heartworm was introduced into the Americas from
the Old Worldand took off in the novel environment OR if was just
noticed in the 19th century.
Notice:
BEGIN QUOTE
Canine heartworm has been known to exist in the Americas for more
than 150 years (1847), and the first South American report was published
approximately 30 years later (1875).
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from
the abstract URL I gave for Central and South Americas in my earlier
post today on heartworm at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16198820
from
Vet Parasitol. 2005 Oct 24;133(2-3):149-56. Links
Epidemiology of heartworm: what is happening in South America and Mexico?
Labarthe N, Guerrero J.
though it doesn't much matter where it began because these parasites need
to be known about by all just as with other diseases that have spread in
any direction.
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