Heartworm prevention medications prevent and control some of the most common parasites transmitted from our dogs or cat every month in addition to preventing heartworm disease.

Learn how serious Hookworms could be to our family and pets from this presentation.

1. Define Zoonosis2. Discuss guidelines from Companion

Animal Parasites Council (CAPC)

3. Discuss Hookworms-transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, control and prevention, public health concern

4. Discuss-control, prevention and zoonosis5. Learn what we need to do as pet owners

Definitiona disease communicable from animals to humans under natural conditions

HookwormsRoundwormsFleasTapewormsTicks

Giardia ?CryptosporidiumScabiesToxoplasmosis

-Independent organization

-Veterinarians and Health Care Professionals

-The mission is to foster animal and human health, while preserving the human-animal bond, through recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of parasitic infections.

www.petsandparasites.org

Everybody, especially children and immune compromised people

Pet owners, people working with animals (veterinarians, veterinary technicians, shelter workers, etc.), electricians, plumbers, exterminators, farmers, gardeners, sunbathers and children who play in contaminated areas are at high risk

Intestinal parasites are virtually everywhere in the environment, and can survive in the soil for years in cold or warm climates.

In a recent study, 10-30% of public soil samples were contaminated with intestinal parasite eggs.

A national survey of shelters revealed that almost 36% of dogs nationwide and 52% of dogs from the southeastern states harbored parasites capable of causing human diseases.

In the U.S. alone, an estimated 10,000 cases of roundworm infections occur each year.

Hookworms are the second most common worm infections in humans (after roundworms).

Fleas can cause diseases in humans.

Roundworms Hookworms Fleas

Ingestion or penetration through skin of infective larvae

2-3 WEEKS FOR INFECTION TO PASS EGGS IN FECES

Can be transmitted from nursing mother to puppies or through placenta (does not occur in cats)

Ingestion of other mammals and insects

INGESTION OF LARVAE FROM CONTAMINATED SOIL

PENETRATION THROUGH THE SKIN

NURSING PUPPIES INGESTION OF OTHER

ANIMALS

DEHYDRATION WEIGHT LOSS BLOOD LOSS (ANEMIA) BLOODY DIARRHEA SKIN PROBLEMS DEATH

Very difficult to see Diagnosis with routine

fecal examination by your veterinarian

Intestinal Hookworm Infection Cutaneous Larval Migrans

A recent national survey showed that 19% of dogs were infected with hookworms.

The southeastern states have the highest rates of infection of cutaneous larva migrans.

Electrician, plumbers, exterminators, farmers, gardeners, sunbathers and children who play in contaminated areas are

at high risk

Companion Animal Parasites Council(CAPC) principles include:

Giving heartworm prevention monthly Deworming monthly (hookworms/roundworms) Appling flea and/or tick control monthly Performing fecal examinations*:

a. 2 to 4 times during the first year of life b. 1 to 2 times a year in adult pets

*Centrifugal flotation technique