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As CDC Initiates Plan to Monitor U.S. Tick Problem
Pet owners and their pets spend more time outdoors during the warmer months. As you refresh on summer safety tips, don’t forget all the time spent at parks and camping/hiking spots and even just playing in the backyard, can mean fleas and ticks–which thrive in tall grass and leaf piles –may be ready to pounce on man’s best friend.
Fleas and ticks can easily latch onto dogs and cats, and can spread serious diseases. Lyme disease is the most common illness caused by tick bites, representing 72% of the tick-borne diseases reported in humans in 2017, and can be fatal if left untreated.
Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported human illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites more than tripled in the United States from 27,388 in 2004 to 96,075 in 2016. The data are a strong indicator of animal illnesses, as well. The CDC is set to start monitoring the nation’s tick problem as well as the diseases the pests might be carrying.
With the rising numbers, pet parents can take measures to protect their four-legged friends, including checking pets and family members regularly and having pets protected with a preventative year-round. Lyme disease has been found in every state in the U.S.
Other Safety Tips for Dogs this Summer Include:
• Never leaving them in a hot car even for a few minutes
• Keeping a dog’s paws cools
• Making sure a dog always has access to fresh drinking water and shade
• Don’t assume a dog can swim well
• Indoor pets are as much at risk of contracting fleas and ticks as outdoor pets

On May 2, Dr. Dan Markwalder, DVM, will be available to share advice for keeping your dog safe this summer, with special emphasis on protecting pets from flea and tick infestation and Lyme disease. He’ll also outline the signs and symptoms associated with Lyme disease.

When you book a window, we’ll provide you with guest bio & suggested questions. Interview is courtesy: Merck Animal Health

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Halloween or Hallowe’en (a contraction of All Hallows’ Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical yeardedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.

It is widely believed that many Halloween traditions originated from Celtic harvest festivals which may have paganroots, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain, and that this festival was Christianized as Halloween. Some academics, however, support the view that Halloween began independently as a solely Christian holiday.

Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related guising), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories and watching horror films. In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows’ Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration. Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows’ Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain foods on this vigilday, including apples, potato pancakes and soul cakes Wikipedia thanks… Paul

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