Mosquitoes play a key role in spreading heartworm disease to dogs. Understanding how this happens is important for prevention. Recognizing the symptoms in dogs with heartworm and knowing the ...

Signs and symptoms of heartworm disease may include: Advanced heartworm disease is sometimes risky to treat because the dying worms can overwhelm the dog’s body or cause a blood clot in the lungs.

Frostbite in dogs is a serious condition. It occurs when the skin and underlying tissues are exposed to freezing or extremely ...

The best flea and tick treatments for dogs protect your pet from these common pests, as well as lice, mites, intestinal worms, and life-threatening heartworm ... of Lyme disease from ticks.

A group of Coastal Carolina University students has had a medical breakthrough in trying to prevent local dogs from getting heartworm. These three students are part of the ‘CCU Disease Hunters ...

If the disease is not quickly diagnosed and treated, it could cause severe symptoms in your dog and even be fatal. Based on research completed by the American Animal Hospital Association ...

The residents of a town on North Carolina’s Outer Banks are currently being cautioned to protect their pets from possible ...

Some people who contract the disease have mild symptoms or none at all. Symptoms can include severe headache and stiffness of the neck, tingling or painful feelings in the skin or extremities ...