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It's here…unfortunately, we just got our first POSITIVE heartworm case of the…

It’s here…unfortunately, we just got our first POSITIVE heartworm case of the season at Emerald Animal Hospital. Heartworm is a serious disease spread by mosquitoes. The TREATMENT is expensive, painful, and occasionally has severe side effects. The PREVENTION of heartworm infection is safe and easy! In the month of March, we are offering an additional SAVINGS of $6 off the cost of 6 months of heartworm prevention or $12 off 12 doses.


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Vaccines and pet health

Vaccines have played a major role in preventing disease and improving public health around the world. These benefits have been extended to our pets as well, helping to protect them from viruses such as rabies, distemper, and parvovirus. There is, however, a small but vocal anti-vaccination movement that questions the necessity of vaccines, and veterinary medicine may not be immune from this movement; New York magazine recently reported that some veterinarians have noticed an uptick in the number of pets that are not being vaccinated, due to a similar anti-vaccination ideology. In this podcast, Dr. Laurel Gershwin, a member of AVMA’s Council on Biologic and Therapeutic Agents, discusses the importance of vaccinations for our pets.

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