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The company’s spokesperson, Dan Kramer, said it self reported the heartworm diagnosis and the dog was removed from the donor pool.

Since heartworm can’t be transmitted via transfusion, he said, no recipient dogs were affected.

State inspectors noted last year that Animal Blood Resources International sold blood collected from an animal with heartworm.

County officials discovered the Asian tiger mosquito in El Monte, which raised alarm bells because of its ability to carry serious illnesses, including dengue and yellow fever in humans, and heartworm in dogs, according to the UC Riverside Center for Invasive Species Research.

These guys can carry heartworm, which can be devastating to a dog that hasn’t been treated with preventive medicine.