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Norden Laboratories (1982 sales: $148 million) already sells a wide variety of animal pharmaceutical products, including heartworm tablets for dogs and parasite preventives for horses. If the drug company can win Government licensing for the vaccine, it will open up an enormous new market. Cat lovers do not stint when it comes to medical care for their pets, spending about $800 million annually. Says Dr. Joan Arnoldi, president of the American Association of Feline Practitioners: "There is a need for this product. It is an excellent idea for feline fanciers of all sorts and a special boon to breeders...
...choppers, caps those that have worn down and has even done costly root canal work on abscessed teeth. Pahle also suggested an easy remedy for animal bad breath: brush the offender's teeth daily-if he allows it. Other vets noted the growth of a more serious problem: heartworm-a mosquito-borne parasite that lodges in the heart, can reach a foot in length and blocks the oxygen supplied to the body. Eventually the dog tires after the slightest exertion. Several drugs are now available to prevent and treat this spreading canine disease...
...Myron Segal, 35, with an arm-long string of qualifications for human surgery, including the straight-to-the-heart type, got into the sideline of saving dogs' lives by accident. Where he had lived, in Montreal and Boston, heartworm was no problem. But in the South (where the worm larvae are carried by flies or mosquitoes), it afflicts many dogs. Caught soon after the animal begins to cough and wheeze, it can be treated with arsenical drugs. What interested Dr. Segal was the advanced cases, too far gone for drugs, which a vet drew to his attention...
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