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Protect your dog from this new deadly disease outbreak. We still don’t know how it got here – The Conversation AU

More than 300 dogs in WA and the NT have tested positive to canine ehrlichiosis, a potentially fatal disease transmitted by ticks.

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While we continue to be occupied with the COVID pandemic, another life-threatening disease has emerged in northern Australia, one thats cause for considerable alarm for the millions of dog owners around the country.
This disease canine ehrlichiosis is transmitted through the bite of a bacterium-carrying parasite called the brown dog tick. This vector parasite is widespread in warm and humid areas of Australia, and its bite can be potentially fatal for dogs.
Until the first cases were recently discovered…

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