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Outbreak in Essex dogs of a serious disease imported from continental Europe
Pete Wedderburn
7 March 2016 ? 4:56pm
Less than a year ago, I wrote about one my my patients, a Beagle, who I was treating for a life threatening tick-borne disease called Babesiosis. I saw the dog in my clinic in Ireland, a few days after he had been imported from Poland.
Many other vets have also seen this condition in imported dogs, but the situation has now taken a turn for the worse: an outbreak of babesiosis has taken place in Essex, affecting local dogs who have not travelled abroad.
The three affected dogs were from separate households, but they are all regularly exercised in the same uncultivated park area of local land. The vets dealing with the cases say that they have recovered the type of tick that carries this disease from two of the dogs. The vets also report that there has been a recent increase in the number of dogs being rescued from abroad into their area...
Outbreak in Essex dogs of a serious disease imported from continental Europe
Pete Wedderburn
7 March 2016 ? 4:56pm
Less than a year ago, I wrote about one my my patients, a Beagle, who I was treating for a life threatening tick-borne disease called Babesiosis. I saw the dog in my clinic in Ireland, a few days after he had been imported from Poland.
Many other vets have also seen this condition in imported dogs, but the situation has now taken a turn for the worse: an outbreak of babesiosis has taken place in Essex, affecting local dogs who have not travelled abroad.
The three affected dogs were from separate households, but they are all regularly exercised in the same uncultivated park area of local land. The vets dealing with the cases say that they have recovered the type of tick that carries this disease from two of the dogs. The vets also report that there has been a recent increase in the number of dogs being rescued from abroad into their area...