HOLIDAY HOURS: Closed Dec 25-26, 2014 and Jan 1-2, 2015. Thank you all for a great year! We continue to work toward our mission to offer the highest quality tests for chronic infectious disease and to educate the public about the risks of Bartonella spp infection through our “Healthy Pets, Healthy Families” program. To that end, we […]
Diseases We Share with Our Pets
The CDC reports that 70% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic – that is, transmitted from animals to humans. What many people do not know is that we actually share many of these diseases with our pets. As pet owners, we need to know what the risks are, how to prevent these diseases, and what signs […]
People share microbes with family members, including our pets
Families with dogs in the home share more microbes than families with small children or married couples without a dog, according to a study published recently by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. The research team led by Dr. Rob Knight emphasize in a recent NBC news interview that most of these microbes are non-threatening and simply part of the trillions of microbes […]