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"good golly miss Molly" <oldmollyREMOVETHIS@tesco.net> wrote in message
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> "Pat" <bonniepml@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> > >  This is simply scare mongering IMO. There is no clue as to what
> > percentage
> > > the numbers represent.
> > >
> > >
> > How can  you be so sure that it is.?
> > If people can come home ill from going abroad.
> > Then why cant animals.
> > I have know a few people come home with illnesses that last quite a
while.
> > Plus lots of treatment.
>  But what percentage of the total which go abroad and come home?
>  If it was 10 % or higher then I would say that is a great risk, if the
> amoutns are only 1% or less of the total amounts, that is a negligable
risk
> I would say. That's why I wanted to know what percentage the numbers
> represented.
> > Heartworm is very real in warmer countries.
>  Which countries?
>  And heartworm is simply cured by putting stronghold drops on the pet.Sold
> in this country for fleas, ticks, mange, earmites and roundworm. What it
> doesn't say on the box over here is that it also treats heartworm.
Probably
> because we don't have a problem with HW over here they don't put it on the
> box.I buy mine from Australia or America and the ingredients are exactly
the
> same as the UK ingredients but the box states heartworm prevention too.
>  I get very cross when people tell only half the story and don't give true
> facts but rather hearsay and no percentages. I would rather they didn't
post
> at all in that case.
>  I happilly took my pet birds and dog back and forth to Germany , when my
ex
> was in the forces . Of course there was the 6 months quarantine in those
> days, but none of my pets ever suffered anything nasty and all eventually
> died of old age.
>
>
>
If information is given ...it can be good and bad.
At least people have a choice.
Heart worm is quite serious.
It also can lay dormant for quiet a while.
There was a case in this country last year in a cat I believe.
With our weather getting hotter you can never tell I guess.
Maybe the cat  came in from another country not sure on that one.
Also the flea treatment from the vets does cover heart worm.
I have read it on one I use.
Not sure about any of the others.
Pat.