Craig Wallace, CEO & North America/Pacific Zone Director at Ceva USA & at CevaSante Animal tweeted information last week about one of his company’s latest relief efforts in support of pet victims of Hurricane Harvey. Ceva has proactively supported gulf coast pet victim relocations and heartworm prevention efforts.
The areas of the country hit hardest by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have some of the higher incidence rates of heartworm disease in the nation. According to data published by the Companion Animal Parasite Council, as many as 30 percent of dogs being relocated may have heartworm disease.
Source: Ceva Animal Health, fall 2017.
Prior to Hurricane Katrina, heartworm disease was largely unseen outside of the Gulf region and Mississippi Delta. But as dogs were moved outside of Louisiana to shelters across the United States, heartworm began to be found in many of those cities which received those displaced dogs.
INSIGHTS: To help shelters mitigate the risk of transmission, Ceva Animal Health is donating a 30-day supply of Vectra® 3D for Dogs to any dog that has been transported from a heartworm-endemic area to reduce the possibility of disease transmission to other dogs. For more information on the Double Defense Heartworm Protocol and Vectra® 3D click here.