Bayer bought out Fort Dodge animal meds compnay. Well, it seems they are trying to push ProHeart6 once again. Most of you know that ProHeart6 killed my just turned 4 year old golden retriever, Hunter, back on Oct. 16, 2003. Ten months later the FDA had them pull it. A few months later they tried to bring it back, but were turned down.
They then "reformulat4ed" it and it was allowed back on the market some 3 years ago but it was not being pushed. Now Bayer has bought out the compnay and did some "testing". I have not read the test results, but the following was sent to me (and a zillon others) by a lady who lost her chocolage lab, George to rimadyl and got involved in dog/drug reactions and stared a site called Health Care. Anway, thie following was sent to her from her vet and told to cross post it. So I am . From what I read here, the test was not actually a fair one, but one designed to come out in favore of that moxidectin poison.
Sent: 2/25/2011 6:39:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Check out Heartworm Disease - UCD-CMC 2008
Jean, tell your friends, before they get all worried and anxious to check this medical paper out for a minute. What they should note is that ivermectin, selamectin, milbimycin all kill older larval stages than moxidectin..............always have, always will............this does not make them remotely inferior to moxidectin..................if one looks at the study that Bayer put out, one will realize that the test subjects only received ONE dose of any given HW prevention...........and it was done when larva were 30 days old...................thus, it is POSITIVELY not evidence that only moxidectin "prevents" HW disease. The other meds were not allowed the benefit of getting a chance at older larvae. In addition, who has ever said that the MP3 HW is the "resistant" form of HW to begin with? I will add that I really have NO experience with seeing HW prevention failure except with one client who purchased it off the internet without a prescription. HW preventatives do not actually prevent future infection, they retroactively treat early infection. How young the infection they treat varies. It is a shame that such fears have been, prematurely, and IMHO erroneously raised. Permission to cross post. (lay this to rest until more studies are done)
I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT I HAVE USED HEARTWORM PREVENTION FOR OVER 30 YEARS, FIRST THE OLD DAILY fILARIBITS, AND THEN iNTERCEPTOR. WE LIVE ON THE TEXAS COAST AND HAVE MOSQUITOES YEAR AROUND. TRUE, WE SOMETIMES GO A FEW WEEKS WITHOUT THEM IN WINTER, BUT WE HAVE OFTEN HAD TO PUT ON MOSQUITO SPRAY IN NOV. DEC, AND JAN WHILE DUCK HUNTING. WE HAVE NEVER HAD A DOG DEVELOPE HEARTWORMS AND I HAVE HAD AS MANY AS 4 DOGS AT AI TIME DURING THESE 30 ODD YEARS. THE ONE TIME I WENT TO SOMETHING ELSE, PROHEART6 INJECTION, IT KILLED MY HUNTER.
THEREFORE I REALLY THINK THIS REPORT WAS NOT DONE FAIRLY AND GIVES THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT USING SOMETHING OTHER THAN MOXIDECTIN WILL PROBABLY CAUS YOUR DOG TO DEVELOP HEARTWORMS. HONEY HAD HEARTWORMS WHEN WE ADOPTED HER IN dEC. 2002, WE HAD HER TREATED, AND SHE HAS BEEN CLEAN EVER SINCE. GET HER CHECKED EVERY SPRING AND SHE IS ON INTERCEPTOR.