The HDTC provides demining training to Special Operations Forces (SOF) assigned the humanitarian demining training mission. Since its inception, HDTC has trained over seventy SOF A-teams which translates to nearly 850 students.
Typical costs: 1  The cost of treating dogs with heartworm usually runs around $1,000, but can be $500-$1,100 or more depending on the size of the dog and the stage of the disease.
Cost of Conventional Heartworm Treatment. Conventional heartworm treatment is expensive. The typical protocol for treatment includes bloodwork and x-rays to measure the infection load, antibiotics to kill the parasites that live in the heartworms, pain medication and sedatives, in addition the actual Immiticide, which kills the heartworms.