How To Prevent Lyme Disease With Seresto Collar?
Lyme disease is a troubling tick-borne disease of current times. Caused by the bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi, Lyme disease is growing in the country despite the enormous efforts of dog parents to keep this vector-borne disease at bay. First diagnosed in 1975 in Old Lyme, Connecticut, the disease is named after the city Old Lyme and is the most common infection in dogs especially in the month of April i.e. early summer and onset of spring season. And that’s why April is considered as Prevent Lyme Disease Month. This Lyme disease prevention month, let us know more about this disease and also find out the best method to eschew it. First Of All Let’s Understand-
How Lyme Disease Is Transmitted To Dogs? The main reason why your dog gets affected by Lyme disease is deer ticks. However, ticks are just a transport medium, the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi is actually carried by whitefooted mouse. Deer ticks, in their larval and nymph stages, suck the bacteria when they feed on mice. The Bacteria sucked during feeding gets matured in the deer tick’s gut and is further transmit ted to dogs by the ticks when they bite them for a meal of blood. For a tick to transmit Lyme disease bacteria into your pooch’s blood, it may take around 12-48 hours. After which the bacteria can take up to 2-5 months to develop and cause Lyme disease in your pal’s body.