Chunnuanhuakai, the Nanjing Purple Mountain climbing has attracted many people. Many people in mountain climbing training at the same time, also did not forget to bring their own dog. Nanjing Agricultural University Animal Hospital, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station in Nanjing pet doctors with clinical cases, when climbers not to take the best dog, the dog in the mountains when the “beautiful” running, hidden in a mountain forest in the “Vampire” is quietly Dogs and wait for opportunities to climb up the body so that the dog Ranhuan “Babesia caballi worm” disease, leading to severe anemia and even death.
Mr. Zhang has found that people, their usual Huanbengluantiao the 2-year-old Palestinian Beijing white dog suddenly dispirited these days, not a good appetite, a small red tongue Fanbai.
Mr. Chang with dogs came to the Nanjing Agricultural University Animal Hospital, the pet doctors, dog found the body temperature as high as 40.2 ℃. According to Mr Cheung said he often with a dog to climb Purple Mountain. According to further examination, doctors diagnosed pet dog suffering from a “Babesia caballi worm” disease.
Nanjing Agricultural University of pet animal hospital doctors said. “Babesia caballi worm” is a blood parasite, is called by a “tick” to the insects infected dog. Ticks are usually parasitic dog in the head, abdomen and armpit, and other Pibao site. Dog bites by ticks, on the one hand to be blood-sucking ticks, on the other hand is in the Babesia caballi disease.
Nanjing Agricultural University Animal Hospital experts said that the general tick habitat in the mountains of weeds Cong, the scrub forests, dogs play in the mountains, will be not care of tick bites and disease. Experts suggested, should be minimal dog hiking, to the forests to take a walk, or to have planted forests of the public square to play.
At the same time, experts survey also found that most of Nanjing Spring and Autumn season Babesia caballi disease-prone dogs, May, October to a high of time.