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Flea and Tick Control Find the lowest prices for your favorite pet meds Fleas are nasty creatures that discomfort pets and humans using the outdoors especially in the warmer months. They feast on blood. Ticks propagate in warm weather and attach themselves to your dog or cats skin. Once attached they engourge themselves with your pets blood. |
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Effective Flea and Tick Control Medication Brands are: Frontline, Frontline Plus, Frontline Top Spot (by Merial), Advantage, K9 Advantix (by Bayer) Tick-Borne Diseases
Lyme disease is a common form of infection which can be transmitted from a tick hopping off your pet onto a human. It was not discovered and named until 1977. The CDC has this to say:
Individuals who live or work in residential areas surrounded by tick-infested woods or overgrown brush are at risk of getting Lyme disease. Persons who work or play in their yard, participate in recreational activities away from home such as hiking, camping, fishing and hunting, or engage in outdoor occupations, such as landscaping, brush clearing, forestry, and wildlife and parks management in endemic areas may also be at risk of getting Lyme disease. Prevention and Treatment: Prevention measures can be effective in reducing your exposure to infected ticks, and most people can be successfully treated with antibiotic therapy when diagnosed in the early stages of Lyme disease. Fleas Fleas are an annoying discomfort and are synomomous with warmer weather. They feed on your pets blood, lay eggs and if not treated, they eggs hatch and produce another generation of fleas. If you see black specks on your pets bed or skin it is a good sign that they have fleas. For effective flea and tick treatment use the following medications: |
Frontline Plus kills ticks, fleas, flea eggs, and flea larva. Each Frontline treatment controls fleas for up to 3 months and ticks for up to 1 month. FRONTLINE Plus is a long lasting spot-on flea and tick control available that breaks the flea life cycle by stopping the development of new fleas.
FRONTLINE Plus kills all stages of tick development for the many ticks including those that may transmit Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Advantage Flea Control Bayer Corporation created Advantage, the fastest flea control. With millions of flea-free pets, it's no wonder pet owners love Advantage®. Advantage stops fleas from biting in three to five minutes, and starts killing fleas within an hour. Within 12 hours of initial application of Advantage, 98-100 percent of all existing fleas on pets are dead.
Vector: Black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are responsible for transmitting Lyme disease bacteria to humans in the northeastern and north-central United States. On the Pacific Coast, the bacteria are transmitted to humans by the western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus). Ixodes ticks are much smaller than common dog and cattle ticks. In their larval and nymphal stages, they are no bigger than a pinhead. Ticks feed by inserting their mouths into the skin of a host and slowly take in blood. Ixodes ticks are most likely to transmit infection after feeding for two or more days.