{"id":2674,"date":"2013-09-10T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2013-09-10T21:52:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T21:52:03","slug":"protecting-dogs-from-lyme-disease-starts-with-your-veterinarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/protecting-dogs-from-lyme-disease-starts-with-your-veterinarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting dogs from Lyme disease starts with your veterinarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ticks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2228\" alt=\"ticks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animalhealthfoundation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ticks.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a>Lyme disease in humans is garnering attention lately because it&#8217;s often misdiagnosed, but veterinarian Richard Goldstein, chief medical officer at Animal Medical Center in New York, reminds dog owners that canines are also susceptible to the disease. Protection begins with a conversation with a veterinarian, and a preventive vaccine is available.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/r.smartbrief.com\/resp\/eIulCertqOCjzosvCidncUCicNKRQK?format=standard\" target=\"_blank\">ChicagoNow.com\/Steve Dale&#8217;s Pet World blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lyme Disease is getting more pub &#8211; how it&#8217;s being underdiagnosed in people. Dr. Richard Goldstein, chief medical officer of <a title=\"Animal-Medical-Center, Steve-Dale, Dr. Richard-Goldstein, Lyme-disease, Lyme-prevention, Lyme-vaccine, tick-diseases\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amcny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Medical Center<\/a> in New York City notes we can do more to protect our dogs than we can to protect ourselves. From my national radio show <em>Steve Dale&#8217;s Pet World<\/em>, listen<a title=\"Dr. Richard-Goldstein, Lyme-vaccine, lyme-disease, dogs-and-lyme, dogs and ticks\" href=\"https:\/\/petworldradio.net\/show-442-the-increasing-threat-of-ticks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> HERE<\/strong><\/a> to Dr. Goldstien explain that Lyme isn&#8217;t any longer only associated with New England, it&#8217;s spreaded West and South and it continues to spread &#8211; even to places like in downtown Chicago!<\/p>\n<p>The key is for veterinarians to screen for Lyme, for starters. Protection depends on where you are, but don&#8217;t guess at what you should do (you may guess wrong), ask your veterinarian. A vaccine is also available.<\/p>\n<p>Lyme is most often transmitted to dogs in the fall &#8211; so it&#8217;s certainly not too late in the year to think about protection. Learn more through <a title=\"dogs-and-ticks, Steve-Dale, Dr. Richard-Goldstein, lyme-testing, screening-for-Lyme, Lyme-vaccine, Lyme-disease, Animal-Medical-Center\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dogsandticks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this website<\/a> about dogs and ticks and tick disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyme disease in humans is garnering attention lately because it&#8217;s often misdiagnosed, but veterinarian Richard Goldstein, chief medical officer at Animal Medical Center in New York, reminds dog owners that canines are also susceptible to the disease. Protection begins with a conversation with a veterinarian, and a preventive vaccine is available. 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