SOURCE: Google Pages Black GSD
There are four major tick-borne diseases that affect dogs in the United States: ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme Disease. They are all dangerous and most can be fatal unless diagnosed in time and treated aggressively.
On the 2nd of June, 2000, I lost my German Shepherd Dog, Thunder, to the ravages of chronic Neorickettsia risticii, once known as Erhlichia risticii. He was not even three when he died, the best dog I've ever owned, and I watched him die by inches over the course of a year and a half. Here in the deep South, where ticks are right at home, no one recognized tick disease until it was too late to save him.
In the years since he died, I've learned, and I'm far from alone, that most vets know next to nothing about TBD, how prevalent it is, how dangerous it is, or how best to treat it. You often have to fight even to have your dog tested, fight again to have the serum sample sent to a lab that is fast and produces consistently on-target results, then brace yourself to fight even harder to get the most effective treatment.
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