Babesia is a game changer in a negative way if you don't know exactly how to deal with it. Some things have evolved and some stay the same. There are more strains than simply Gibsoni and Canis.

While berenil is still something good to have on hand, it's not as effective as Imizol and is really only specific to one strain of Babesia Canis Rossi and Imizol is effective to this strain as well.

YOU CAN PREVENT BABESIA.
YOU CAN CURE BABESIA. The cure is no guarantee but with some protocols hitting 87% successful cure rates, your odds of eliminating detectable infliction in your dog are very high.

How to prevent:
Our team has been employing the following prevention protocol for 5 years with 100% success so far. Immediately after hog hunting training or actual hunting contact with a hog we do the following .

Berenil IM at 2.3mg/lb
24 hours later Imizol SC 3.0mg/lb

Repeat in 2 weeks.

We have actually purposely subjected healthy dogs to infected hogs and still have had zero babesia in 5 years.

To cure your dog you have 2 options. If you have Gibsoni, the Mepron Azithromycin protocol is first choice.

Many studies use this protocol and if failed they go to the following regime.

Clindamycin
Metronidazole
Doxycycline

You can use these 3 drugs for 30 and sometimes 90 days and it's very effective in eliminating Babesia as well.

All of these drugs are readily available and Google is a beautiful thing in assisting in this area.

This isn't some redneck backwoods bullshit we come up with. It's all directly from research and validated studies I the animal medical field.

There's protocols to follow if you know your dog os infected and you're working them for field trials, weight pulls, etc to prevent flare ups also.

GET IMIZOL AND BERENIL. BE DILIGENT IN PREVENTION. IT WILL SAVE YOU A TON OF TROUBLE