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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty
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Speaker 1: seven hundred. And joining us this morning is doctor Marty Greer. Doctor,
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Speaker 1: where are you this week?
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Speaker 2: Hope?
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Speaker 1: Do we have doctor Greer with us? I'm we're not
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Speaker 1: hearing her. That's okay. I Actually a fun fact is
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Speaker 1: I know where doctor Greer is. She is. She is
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota traveling uh this morning, and we'll get the
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Speaker 1: details from her. Of course, it is spring. I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at the forecast here, twenty seven storm track forecast. We
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Speaker 1: see we're seeing temperatures today near sixty uh. Throughout the week.
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Speaker 1: I see seventy three on Friday and the sixties on
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. And it's gonna be it's gonna be at
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Speaker 1: warm weather. And doctor I think we've been able to
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Speaker 1: get connected with you and doctor I know when it
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Speaker 1: doesn't take much a little bit of a weather change
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Speaker 1: and all sorts of critters start coming out of the
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Speaker 1: woodwork looking to uh, looking to snack on your on
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Speaker 1: your furry friends and sometimes you as well, but they
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Speaker 1: really like like your pets. How you doing this morning,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, excellent. It's good to talk to you.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the some of the things
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Speaker 1: out there. Obviously, with the changing of the seasons, there
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Speaker 1: are things as pet owners we want to be proactive
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Speaker 1: about making sure that that our pets stay healthy.
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Speaker 3: Aren't there You're right about we start having pleasing chicks,
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Speaker 3: so we need to be vigilant and get.
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Speaker 2: Our pets on those preventives. So that includes heart run prehensives,
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Speaker 2: please fleen tick preventives, keep them healthy.
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Speaker 1: You were you, I think you had mentioned on a
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Speaker 1: previous showy probably last fall or so. Some of the
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Speaker 1: recommendations have changed just because of weather wise, how seasons
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Speaker 1: have you know, warmer, warmer, winters and and that area.
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Speaker 1: There are some slightly different guidance from what we may
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Speaker 1: have traditionally been taught about when to be when to
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Speaker 1: be giving your pets some of these treatments.
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Speaker 2: Right, we used to be a lot more seasonal in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: We would go just spring, summer, and fall, but now
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Speaker 2: it really needs to be year round. You know, we
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Speaker 2: had a pretty cold stretch in February for a few days,
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Speaker 2: but in January we had some forty degree weather. So
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Speaker 2: that's all it takes for the ticks to come out
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Speaker 2: and start looking for somebody to snack on. So it
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Speaker 2: is important that we're paying attention to those weather changes.
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Speaker 2: And the tics have changed as well. The ticks have
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Speaker 2: moved to a more northern area, so we're seeing ticks
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Speaker 2: here like the lone star ticks we never saw before.
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Speaker 1: And it's interesting we talk about ticks. I remember a
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Speaker 1: couple of winters ago. It was a it was a
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Speaker 1: warm day and I remember I was out out in
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Speaker 1: my backyard, out in the woods. I found a log
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Speaker 1: that I was sitting on and it was there was
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Speaker 1: still snow on snow piles and snow on the ground,
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Speaker 1: but it was a it was a war and I
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Speaker 1: look down and there's a tick walking across my hand.
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Speaker 1: All it took was that little warm up for them
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Speaker 1: to wake back up and come back out. I always,
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Speaker 1: and this was my naive tata all of this. My
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Speaker 1: assumption was always that if if if it was cold,
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Speaker 1: they were dead, And reality is, they weren't dead. They cold,
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Speaker 1: They were just snapping and as soon as it warms up,
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Speaker 1: they get going again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they come out hungry. So they're looking for you.
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Speaker 2: They're looking for your dog, and your dog has preventive
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Speaker 2: on it, they're going to look for you. So you
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Speaker 2: want to make sure that we're doing all the right
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Speaker 2: things that they're not bringing it back into the yonchard
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Speaker 2: into the house. I've had clients have a tick come
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Speaker 2: in the house and make a nest and then they
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Speaker 2: have just a real big mess on their hands. But
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Speaker 2: I sim please, They'll come in the house and they
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Speaker 2: spend most of their time on the pet, but there
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Speaker 2: is some time off their body, and that gives them
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Speaker 2: a chance for eggs to laid and then eggs to hatch,
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Speaker 2: and then for those larvae to come out and then
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Speaker 2: turn into adults and start snacking on you. So it's
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Speaker 2: a it's a really interesting life cycle. But not when
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Speaker 2: I want to be part of.
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Speaker 1: No, No, absolutely not. And doctor. Do do flee and
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Speaker 1: tick collars work?
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Speaker 3: I know?
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Speaker 1: I know with Homer we do the we do the
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Speaker 1: drops and the on the and they work fantastic. Do
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Speaker 1: the collars work much? It seems like there might be
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Speaker 1: some downside to that.
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Speaker 2: But I'll yeah, the Ceresto color, which is amtrez, is
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Speaker 2: the active ingredient. It does work pretty well. It does
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Speaker 2: have a repellency effect and it also paralyzes them off
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Speaker 2: parts of the tick, so if they try to bite,
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Speaker 2: or if they do bite, then they're paralyzed, so they
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Speaker 2: can't continue holding on and taking a snack of blood
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Speaker 2: from you. So they do work pretty effectively. The others,
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Speaker 2: you know, as you mentioned, there's a topical, there's a pill,
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Speaker 2: there's a collar, and in the next year or two
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Speaker 2: we're going to see another product come to market that's
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Speaker 2: going to revolutionize the use of fleean chick medications. But
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Speaker 2: it's not quite out there yet, so we just have
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Speaker 2: to be patient until it does come to market. It's
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Speaker 2: pretty great.
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Speaker 1: What does you mentioned doctors? Talking this morning with doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer of check Out Veterinary, we talked about ticks
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Speaker 1: and obviously ticks that we'd introduce types that we haven't
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Speaker 1: traditionally seen. Of course, dog takes, deer ticks pretty common.
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Speaker 1: Lone star is starting to appear here and we think
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Speaker 1: about things like lime disease. Is that what effect does
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Speaker 1: that have on animals and why is it something that
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Speaker 1: you really want to make sure that you're doing everything
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Speaker 1: to prevent sure.
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Speaker 2: So we see lime disease antaplastmasa center licky fairly commonly
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Speaker 2: in our dogs. Lime disease causes fever, lameness, not feeling well,
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Speaker 2: loss of appetite, and in some cases, especially labradors and
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Speaker 2: Golden Retrievers, they can go into kidney failures, they develop
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Speaker 2: lime to fritus and they can die from it. So
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Speaker 2: it's not just oh, it's a tick. It's oh, it's
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Speaker 2: a tick. And if you have lime disease, we need
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Speaker 2: to be testing for it now. If it comes back
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Speaker 2: positive on the in house screening test, then there's an
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Speaker 2: additional test that we run called the C six that
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Speaker 2: verifies is this a recent exposure or is this a
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Speaker 2: previous exposure, because if they were those three years ago,
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Speaker 2: the lime test may still show up positive and so
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Speaker 2: you'll be like, well, he's always been positive. I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to treat this year. Well, if we do the
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Speaker 2: C six, then it's above thirty, that's going to tell
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Speaker 2: us that it's an active infection. If it's below thirty,
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Speaker 2: you know a lot of them come back at ten
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, yeah, I don't worry about it. But
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Speaker 2: if it comes back two hundred and eighteen, if it
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Speaker 2: comes about eight hundred, yeah, I'm kind of all over
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Speaker 2: that because that's going to tell us that we're likely
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Speaker 2: to end up in trouble. And I don't want dogs
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Speaker 2: to develop something that we could have prevented. So it's
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Speaker 2: pretty easy to prevent. And you know a lot of
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Speaker 2: people are still reluctant to use the flee intic medications.
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Speaker 2: They used to contain organo phosphates and carbamates, which we're
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Speaker 2: also toxic to our nervous systems, to any mammals nervous
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Speaker 2: system But the newer products that we have now don't
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Speaker 2: affect the humans the way that the old ones did,
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Speaker 2: So there's so much safer, and there's so much more effective,
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Speaker 2: and there's so many more delivery systems than we didn't
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Speaker 2: used to have. That if you're kind of reluctant, I
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Speaker 2: want you to revisit that and really pay attention to
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Speaker 2: what the newer products can do for your pets and
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Speaker 2: for you, and to keep your yard clear, keep your
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Speaker 2: house clear. You not have the dog brings something in
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Speaker 2: for the cat. You know, all those things can happen what.
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Speaker 1: About the lime vaccine? Doctor, Are there certain dogs and
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Speaker 1: certain activities that pet owners may want it, or certain
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Speaker 1: pets that they may be more likely to really want
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Speaker 1: or need or should probably have a lime vaccine.
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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people have the conception that if
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Speaker 2: their dog stays in their yard and their yard is
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Speaker 2: fenced or they mow the grass, that there aren't going
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Speaker 2: to be ticks there, and that's actually not true. So
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Speaker 2: it really depends a little bit on environment, and it
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Speaker 2: depends on what kind of a risk taker you are.
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Speaker 2: The flea and tick preventives prevent all the fleas and ticks,
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Speaker 2: and they prevent all the diseases that the ticks carry,
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Speaker 2: and that the lime disease only prevents lime disease, so
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Speaker 2: you know, it's still a very useful vaccination. And for
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Speaker 2: dogs that spend a lot of time outdoors, or if
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Speaker 2: you go camping or up north or you know, hiking
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Speaker 2: or hunting or any of those things, then yes, I
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Speaker 2: would vaccinate those dogs for lime. If the dog is
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Speaker 2: you know, a couch potato dog and the toe out
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Speaker 2: into the grass for about thirty seconds and tiptoe back,
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Speaker 2: their risks are lower, but they're not zero.
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of check Out Veterinaria.
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Speaker 1: Getting your pet ready for spring. I've seen and I
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Speaker 1: know my dog and I took a walk yesterday and
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Speaker 1: taking a couple already this year. As soon as it
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Speaker 1: gets a little warmer, we all get out, take our
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Speaker 1: pets out a little bit more longer walks. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about some of the things to be careful with on
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Speaker 1: those eyes. We talked this morning with doctor Greer. Also
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Speaker 1: getting everything buttoned down so we have a great, great
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Speaker 1: season ahead. Heartworm is another concern as we enter this
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Speaker 1: time of year, and taking that preventative is an important
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Speaker 1: thing for your pet, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, And we do see heartworm disease in Wisconsin. Most
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Speaker 2: of the dogs that are positive in our clinic have
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Speaker 2: been imported from the Southern States as rescues, but not all.
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Speaker 2: And if you have a rescue dog in the neighborhood
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Speaker 2: that's positive for live disease, very likely that the one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent of the dogs in that immediate vicinity will
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Speaker 2: also be exposed in potentially have heartworm disease as well.
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Speaker 2: So we want to make sure that we're on our
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Speaker 2: preventions and we're keeping it doesn't prevent a mosquito bite.
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Speaker 2: But what it does is prevent the heartworm larva from
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Speaker 2: turning that carries by the mosquito from turning into an
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Speaker 2: adult worm. And when we say heartworm, we really mean heartworm.
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Speaker 2: That's really a worm that lives inside the dog's heart.
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Speaker 2: And people are like, what, yeah, really, I've seen them.
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Speaker 2: They're not pretty. You don't want those in your dog's heart.
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Speaker 1: With heartworm too, people sometimes wonder, obviously it's a prescription.
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Speaker 1: Why do they need a prescription for that? And why
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Speaker 1: do you do a test for heartworm before you give
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Speaker 1: a heartworm prescription doctor.
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Speaker 2: Well, back in the old days, with the previous heartworm
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Speaker 2: preventives that we had with a diantholcarb magazine, it had
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Speaker 2: to be given daily. If you gave that to a
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Speaker 2: heartworm positive dog, it could have a fatal event. It
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Speaker 2: would kill so many worms so quickly that the dog
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Speaker 2: could arrest. So we have newer preventives now that necessarily
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Speaker 2: aren't quite that severe. The biggest concern is failure to
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Speaker 2: diagnose the heart room disease early enough to get a
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Speaker 2: treatment that's effective. The longer the worms live in the
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Speaker 2: dog's heart, the more damage it's under the heart, and
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Speaker 2: then the kidneys deliver other into and our organs are
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Speaker 2: also affected. So we don't want your dog to walk
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Speaker 2: around the heart room for four years before they start
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Speaker 2: coughing and then say, ooh, I guess we should have
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Speaker 2: tested you three years ago. So the recommendation is to
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Speaker 2: do an annual test. Even though people swear up and
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Speaker 2: down that they have given every single heart room pill
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Speaker 2: every single month, every single time, there are still things
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Speaker 2: that happen. There are some heartrooms that are resistant to
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Speaker 2: the preventive. I have a friend down in Memphis who
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Speaker 2: two years ago diagnosed thirty eight heartworm positive dogs on
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Speaker 2: dogs that were known to be given preventive every single month.
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Speaker 2: So we can see resistance. We can see failure of
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Speaker 2: the medication, like you maybe forgot or maybe the dogs
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Speaker 2: fitted out behind the couch, or maybe the dog went
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Speaker 2: outside and vomited and he didn't realize that that happened,
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Speaker 2: and so then the dog has a break in coverage.
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Speaker 2: So as veterinarians, it is our responsibility to make sure
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Speaker 2: that we are protecting your pets against those diseases. So
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Speaker 2: we don't want to have anything slip. So the craft
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Speaker 2: that's why we are recommending annual tests. We used to
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Speaker 2: kind of go, well, you know, every other year. No,
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Speaker 2: the American Heartrooms Society says every single year these dogs
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Speaker 2: should be tested. So you can do your research. You
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Speaker 2: can go to the American Heartrooms Society website and take
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Speaker 2: a look at their recommendations, so you can really verify
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Speaker 2: that your veterinarian is not just you know, trying to
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Speaker 2: grab a couple extra bucks out of your pocket. They're
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Speaker 2: really doing what's recommended for your pet by the specialty
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Speaker 2: people who know their stuff.
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Speaker 1: into some of the environmental things that go on during
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Speaker 1: the springtime, one final thing that I can think of,
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Speaker 1: and there's probably a billion things that I'm that I'm overlooking,
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Speaker 1: but important thing is as your pet comes in contact
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Speaker 1: with other animals, sometimes things like rabies and other diseases
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Speaker 1: and serious illnesses are out there. I know a lot
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Speaker 1: of communities. Most commune I can think of require some
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Speaker 1: type of vaccine and protection against things like rabies. Those
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Speaker 1: are obviously very important to beginning and just just terrible,
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Speaker 1: terrible diseases, aren't.
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Speaker 2: They doctor they are? And rabies there's no cure for rabies.
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Speaker 2: Once you're exposed to rabies and get rabies, it's over.
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Speaker 2: So it's really important that you don't try to cheat
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Speaker 2: the system and not get a Raby's vaccination for your pet.
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Speaker 2: We need to be doing those. As puppies they get
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Speaker 2: them the first time, and then a year later they
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Speaker 2: get one, and then it's typically a three year series
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Speaker 2: after that, so every three years you need a Rabia's vaccination.
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Speaker 2: It's not required for capts in some communities. It is
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Speaker 2: required for dogs in the entire state of Wisconsin. So
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Speaker 2: get your raby vaccination, get your tag, get your certificate,
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Speaker 2: take your dogs paperwork in, get them a license, follow
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Speaker 2: the rules. It's always important to do those things, So
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Speaker 2: don't try to sneak around and cheat the system. It's
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Speaker 2: not it doesn't it just doesn't pay off. It's not
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Speaker 2: good for you, it's not good for your pet. And
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Speaker 2: if your pet is unvaccinated for rabies. If they're exposed
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Speaker 2: to something or they bite somebody, got somebody, then they
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Speaker 2: are considered unvaccinated and you are going to be responsible
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Speaker 2: for at least ten days of quarantine that you pay for.
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Speaker 2: For some things, it's up to six months of quarantine.
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Speaker 2: So don't mess around. Just get the raby vaccination. They're safe,
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Speaker 2: they're they're good. We have primerosolt free vaccines. If you're
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Speaker 2: so you know, really pay attention to those things it's important.
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Speaker 1: With And it feels like this is one of those.
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Speaker 1: And I shouldn't say one of those because I don't think.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it's necessarily rarity. But oftentimes we
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Speaker 1: overlook our cat friends are our kiddies, and obviously rabies
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Speaker 1: is something and I think of I watch my cats
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Speaker 1: the way they behave. I mean, they're there may not
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Speaker 1: always be the hunted. Sometimes oftentimes they are the hunters,
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Speaker 1: and they can become exposed to rabies that way as well,
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Speaker 1: can't They.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, things like baths are really a concern now. Most rodents,
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Speaker 2: mice and rats don't carry rabies, but the little other
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Speaker 2: critters we see raccoons and skunks and a lot of that.
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Speaker 2: And cats are often exposed to bats even if they're
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Speaker 2: not outside because unfortunately, baths can find their way into
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Speaker 2: your house, back to your belfry, can come into the
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Speaker 2: house house, and then the cats can be exposed to it.
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Speaker 2: My sister had that happened to her a number of
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Speaker 2: years ago when she lived in downtown Minneapolis. So even
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Speaker 2: in communities that seem really urban, we still have bats.
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Speaker 2: They live under the shake shingles, they live you know,
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Speaker 2: around and we want that. We want bats to be
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Speaker 2: able to eat the insects and do the things that
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Speaker 2: they're supposed to do, but they do carry that risk.
17:31
Speaker 2: So again, you know, if you're in certain municipalities, look
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Speaker 2: us what the law is and make sure that you're
17:36
Speaker 2: following it. Get your cat vaccinated, because the last thing
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Speaker 2: we want to do is have anything that goes wrong.
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Speaker 2: And radius is a serious disease. If a human gets
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Speaker 2: it there, it's a fatal disease. There's only one person
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Speaker 2: known to has survived, and that actually was in fond
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Speaker 2: of Lac, Wisconsin. Well, she was treated at Milwaukee, but
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Speaker 2: she was from Fondilac, so that has been you know,
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Speaker 2: really nobody else has been able to replicate that remarkable recovery.
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Speaker 2: So you have to be aware that that's the case,
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Speaker 2: and you know, just not take any chances on exposure
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Speaker 2: because it's just not it's just not worth it.
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Speaker 1: And I want to ask two doctor. I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of you mentioned that word exposure. A lot of
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Speaker 1: us assume a bite. Obviously a bite is one way,
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Speaker 1: but am i am I right? Or am I off
18:19
Speaker 1: on this that that even rabias can even be spread
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Speaker 1: just through through saliva and other fluid. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: not necessarily a bite. And I understand bat bites actually
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Speaker 1: can be so innocuous that you may not even know
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Speaker 1: that you. I think the gal and Fondelac wasn't even
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Speaker 1: sure she had been bitten by a bat. That as
18:39
Speaker 1: much as we'd like to think, well I would know,
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Speaker 1: or my pet would would make a noise or reacting,
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Speaker 1: it's just not. It is something that they can be
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Speaker 1: exposed to, and you may not always be aware that
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Speaker 1: that had ever even happened.
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Speaker 2: Correct in this person's case, she had picked up a
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Speaker 2: bat in the church and carried it outside, so she
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Speaker 2: had been exposed to that. She didn't think that there
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Speaker 2: was a bite. But there's about on average one person
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Speaker 2: a year in the United States that dies from Raby's
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Speaker 2: with no known exposure, So it's pretty scary to think
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Speaker 2: that you could get it and not even be aware
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Speaker 2: of it. So anybody fluid that splashed onto a mucous
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Speaker 2: membrane can be the case. Like when we were in
19:15
Speaker 2: that school, we had an exposure. One of our classmates
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Speaker 2: got exposed to splashing blood in his eye from an
19:20
Speaker 2: animal that was thought to have rabies. When my husband
19:23
Speaker 2: was in dairy practice, he stuck his arm down the
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Speaker 2: throat of a cow along with his two associates because
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Speaker 2: they assumed she was choking on something like a corn cob,
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Speaker 2: and indeed she had rabies. So all three of those
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Speaker 2: guys were exposed. So you know, and it doesn't take much,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't take long, and there is no turning around,
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Speaker 2: so you just have to be really cognizant of the
19:43
Speaker 2: fact that you can't take those chances.
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