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Canine Health
Canine vaccinations and common diseases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Age to start vaccination program | 6-8 weeks |
| Age to give rabies vaccine | 12-16 weeks |
| Rabies is always this. | Fatal |
| Build up immune system protection | Vaccination boosters |
| Only vaccine required by law | Rabies |
| Another vaccine recommended in this area | Lymes |
| Subcutaneous injection (SQ) | Under the skin |
| Intramuscular injection (IM) | Into the muscle |
| After the firat year, vaccination boosters are recommended at this interval | Every 3 years |
| Every 3 years after the first year | Requirement for Rabies vaccine |
| Vaccines that should be given to every dog | Core |
| Vaccines only recommended for certain dogs | Noncore |
| Vaccination given into the nose | Intranasal |
| Sterile water for vaccines that need to be reconstituted | Diluent |
| Lymes Disease | Bacterial |
| Rabies Disease | Viral |
| Ringworm Disease | Fungal |
| Coccidiosis | Protozoan |
| A viral disease | Cannot be treated with anitibiotics |
| A bacterial disease | Can be treated with antibiotics |
| Rocky Mt. Spotted Fever or Anaplasmosis | Rickettsial |
| Lethargy | Inactivity |
| Anorexia | Not eating |
| Incubation of a disease | Time from exposure to an infection until symptoms of disease show up |
| Neurological problems | Brain or spinal cord problems that affect movement |
| Paralysis | Loss of leg and body movement |
| Pre-exposure vaccine | Vaccine given before exposure to a disease to protect animal from contracting it. |
| Zoonotic | Disease which can be transmitted to humans from animals |
| Parasite | Organism that lives off an animal either internally or externally |
| Wingless animals that jump and seek heat to survive | Fleas |
| Fleas | Feed on blood of animal |
| Wingless insects that attach to animal by embedding their mouth into the skin | Tick |
| Mites | May live on skin, hair coat or in the ears of an animal |
| Transmitting a disease | Passing a disease to another organism by either direct contact, throught the air or through a bite |
| Scabies | Infestation of sarcoptes mite on a human |
| Hair loss | Alopcia |
| Used to determine if skin mites are present | Skin scraping viewed under the microscope |
| Lice | Tiny insects that live on the hair |
| Used to treat lice | Topical insecticides |
| Demodex mite | One cause of hair loss |
| Mosquito | Carries and transmits Heartworm |
| Fills heart and lungs with spaghetti like parasite | Heartworm |
| Roundworms or Ascarids | Most common intestinal parasites of dogs and puppies |
| This parasite may be contracted by eggs penetrating their pads and skin | Hookworm |
| Whipworm | Hard to control because they live in the soil for years |
| Tapeworm | Flea commonly transmits this internal parasite |
| Most obvious symptom is seeing a rice-like segment called a proglottid, in the feces | Tapeworm |
| Used to treat internal parasite infestation | Anthelmintics |
| Best diagnosis tool to identify internal parasites | Fecal exam |
| A bite from a flea or contact with flea saliva. | May cause an allergic reaction |
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