Annual report on the state of pet health calls increases in FIV and Lyme disease 'staggering.'The Banfield Pet Hospital annual State of Pet Health Report for 2014 focuses on what it calls a "staggering" increase in infectious diseases in dogs and cats. Data from patients at Banfield's 850 hospitals-470,000 cats and 2.3 million dogs in 2013-showeda 48 percent increase in the prevalence of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) in cats and a 21 percent increase in the prevalence of infection with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease in dogs since 2009. The hospitals' internal research team, Banfield Applied Research and Knowledge (BARK), also studied trends involving parvovirus, Giardia infection and kennel cough in dogs and feline leukemia virus (FeLV), upper respiratory infection and ear mites in cats.
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