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Feline Heartworm Guidelines updated by the AHS

Driven by the underdiagnosis and undermanagement of heartworm disease in cats, the American Heartworm Society outlined four main reasons for recommending routine heartworm screening in cats:

  • aiding diagnosis in symptomatic cats
  • monitoring heartworm-positive cases
  • establishing baselines before preventive treatment
  • assessing heartworm risk in specific areas

Source: American Heartworm Society, November 2024. Link. The revised guidelines advise using both antigen and antibody tests, with antigen tests performed on heat-treated serum to improve accuracy. Antigen-antibody complexes in feline samples are more likely to yield positive results after heat treatment than canine samples.

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The colors are changing but your clients’ heartworm prevention programs shouldn’t. To help spice up your client outreach programs this fall, the AHS has created a new set of posters you can print or post on your social pages.

To keep this message front and center with your clients, we’re sharing a set of new posters you can print OR post on your Facebook or Instagram page.

  • To save or print a poster, just click on the image below, then click on the “download” button and save the PDF file.
  • To save a poster for use on your social pages, simply open the downloaded poster, then right click on the file and follow the menu instructions to save the file as a JPEG image.

For more client tools, be sure to visit the Resource Center. And if you don’t already, make sure you’re sharing our Facebook and Instagram posts!

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