To properly protect your dog against echinococcosis, you need to know what disease it is.
It is all the more interesting to be warned that the man is at risk of catching it. Cases are very rare but this disease is heavy, serious and even sometimes fatal.
Echinococcosis comes from echinococcus which are small tapeworms, ie flat intestinal worms. They measure between 2 and 3 mm.
The dog can be easily contaminated. In rural areas, it is sufficient for it to eat the offal of contaminated herbivores or by catching rodents which it hunts for fun.
In town, undercooked meat can be enough to contaminate it. Symptoms are rare. He has, above all, anal itching.
The puppy has every chance of catching parasites from its mother transmitted through the placenta. It is therefore necessary to make him swallow a dewormer quickly. That is to say a drug able to kill these worms which are digestive parasites.
To protect your dog against echinicoccosis, it must be treated regularly. The puppy must therefore be very quickly, as soon as it is ten days old. Then, it must be done once a month until he is six months old.
Once the animal is an adult, the dog must be dewormed very regularly, ie four times a year. The effect of the dewormer does not last long.
Today, the drug comes in several forms and the deworming of the dog is a gesture that is done more and more simply.
