ATHENS – Long the bane of pet owners’ existence, ticks and mosquitoes are expanding their geographic range due to warming temperatures. And they’re bringing disease with them.
A new study from the University of Georgia suggests shelter dogs in the Eastern U.S. may be bearing the brunt of that burden. The study found that more than one in five of the dogs in the study were infected with heartworms or had been exposed to Lyme disease.
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