Hospital News
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Jul 31 2012
Don’t Take Flea and Tick Prevention for Granted!
We are lucky in North America! The incidence of many infectious and parasitic diseases is much less than other areas of the world. However, take heed and be on the alert as new diseases emerge and old ones re-emerge all the time: Who had heard of Lyme disease or parvovirus 40 years ago? Recent studies have shown that Chagas disease, a single-celled parasite spread by an insect sometimes known as the “kissing bug”, is well-established in Texas, and that it’s here to stay. While the number of diagnosed infections over the last twenty years has been less than 1,000, it’s…
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Jul 17 2012
High-Rise Syndrome
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s your cat, and unlike Supercat she’s not soaring. She has just taken a leap out of your 6th story window, perhaps still brimming with her cat confidence telling her that it’s just like jumping off of the dresser. But it’s not. As with any creature falling a great distance, injury and death are possible. Your cat may land on her feet, but when doing so from 8 stories up it’s not going to be a light landing. We see cats move around with such agility and grace, landing from heights we couldn’t…
