Experience is an influential teacher. Ellen Bishai, DVM, PhD, shares the story of her cat’s ordeal with heartworm disease and the resulting commitment to feline heartworm preventatives.
For me, if there is a preventative I can do that’s not going to hurt the pet…I don’t see any reason not to do it.” – Ellen Bishai, DVM, PhD
Source: DVM 360, March 31,2022. Link. The way our tests are designed, if we’re doing an antigen test, the antigen, as far as we know, is only produced by the female worm. You could hypothetically . . . have a cat that only had a male heartworm infection. When tested it would be negative. “. . . are we missing heartworm in some cats?”