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Disease guide

Diseases and the tests that diagnose them

What each disease is, which animals it affects, how it spreads and which laboratory tests help your veterinarian find it. General information, written from published veterinary sources.

All animalsCompanion animalsFarm animalsLaboratory and exotic animals
Bacterial infectionsViral infectionsBlood parasitesWorms and other parasitesSkin and fungal conditionsMetabolic and nutritionalOrgan and hormone disordersBreeding and abortionOther

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Worms and other parasitesCan affect people

Giardiasis

A gut infection by a microscopic parasite. Most animals have no signs, but some, especially puppies, kittens and calves, get soft, pale, smelly diarrhoea.

DogCatCowBuffalo+2
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Worms and other parasites

Heartworm and other filarial worms

A mosquito-borne worm infection in which adult worms live in the heart and lung vessels of dogs and cats. Early disease may cause no signs, and prevention is far easier than treatment.

DogCat
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Worms and other parasitesCan affect people

Liver fluke disease

Flukes in the liver cause anaemia, poor growth and swelling under the jaw. In sheep it can kill suddenly, and in cattle and buffalo it is usually a slow, chronic loss of condition and milk.

CowBuffaloGoatSheep
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Worms and other parasitesCan affect people

Roundworms and hookworms in dogs and cats

Intestinal worms are common in puppies and kittens. They can cause diarrhoea, a pot belly, poor growth and, with hookworms, dangerous anaemia, and some can infect people.

DogCat
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Worms and other parasites

Worms in cattle, buffalo, goats and sheep

Worms in the stomach and gut are among the commonest causes of poor growth, anaemia and deaths in young animals and in goats and sheep. Heavy infections are often invisible until animals are thin and weak.

CowBuffaloGoatSheep
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