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Premium Content Subscriber only A biosecurity alert has been issued for a tick-borne disease that can be fatal to dogs if not treated quickly. The Agriculture and Fisheries Department alert stated canine ehrlichiosis, or E. canis., was detected in dogs brought into Queensland from the Northern Territory. “To date, no dogs of Queensland origin have tested positive for E. canis,” the alert stated. It said the brown dog tick was the primary carrier of the bacterial infection also known as canine typhis. It attacks the immune cells causing symptoms including lethargy, anorexia, bleedi...

How quickly will you start to see symptoms? and what type of symptoms should you look out for? >> well, the symptoms usually occur about six to seven days after exposure. and they start like a flu like type of symptom. you don't feel well. you develop high fevers, very high fevers. you may notice that your lymph glands are engaged. you may vomit. that becomes into a septic shock type of picture and you die. so you have to be careful that if you develop these symptoms especially after you've been outdoors for a while or if you came into contact with any animals or you notice you have any tick b...

Clothing, particularly at dusk, perhaps a light color so you can distinguish a tick on your body. you can use insect repellants. they're something new to me that i learned a little bit ago and that is something you can spray on your clothes and it's incredibly helpful to try to prevent tick bites. you can't prevent them 100% but you can try these things. heather: what about the symptoms? how do you know you have the disease? when do you go to the practitioner? >> we typically classify lyme as an early localized phenomena, middle stage and then late stage lyme. the early localized disease is ch...