Sentences with phrase «borne typhus»

Santa Ana announces flea - borne typhus alert.

If you missed the Orange County Vector Control District's press release, announcing last year's dramatic decrease in flea - borne typhus cases, you're not alone.

A 2005 investigation of an outbreak of six cases of flea - borne typhus on one block in Pasadena found that three out of four households representing four out of six cases had indoor / outdoor cats, and reported the presence of opossums.

Fleas will not only make you and especially your furry family member miserable, but they can also be the cause of tapeworm (when the flea is ingested), flea - borne typhus (carried by feral cats and wild animals that may frequent your yard), cat flea rickettsiosis, and flea allergic dermatitis.

FLEA - BORNE TYPHUS ALERT FOR LOCAL SANTA ANA COMMUNITY SANTA ANA, CA (May 25, 2012)-- Earlier this week Santa Ana officials were notified by O.C. Vector Control that, as of last Friday, there is a Santa Ana resident with a confirmed case of Typhus.

False Statement: «Science Shows Feral Cat Colonies Pose No Disease Risk to Humans — The health risks that catch and kill advocates most often blame on cats are intestinal parasites, rabies, flea - borne typhus, and toxoplasmosis.

Flea - borne typhus is another infectious disease sometimes erroneously blamed on feral cats.

Although infected fleas may hitch a ride on feral cats, the chance of becoming infected with flea - borne typhus via a feral cat is extremely low.

For this reason, public health officials in Texas, where flea - borne typhus is endemic, have focused their efforts on controlling fleas rather than their hosts.

Removing cats does not halt the spread of flea - borne typhus, because cats don't spread the disease — the fleas themselves do.

A lice - borne typhus epidemic swept westward from Russia in the early 20th century, and by World War II, German troops in trenches on the Eastern Front were falling fast to the disease.

«Several investigations of outbreaks of flea - born typhus in Los Angeles County have demonstrated that pet ownership is a more significant risk factor than exposure to free - roaming cats,» said Ackerman.

In Texas, where outbreaks of flea - born typhus also occur, officials have found that fleas on pet dogs rather than on cats are more likely to harbor the infection.

Not exact matches

Bring back DDT, they demand, and let it be sprayed on the inner walls of houses, where it would kill vectors of malaria and other insect - borne diseases like dengue and typhus.

Further, typhus claimed so many millions of lives during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that it threatened to torpedo the newly born Soviet state, leading Lenin to exclaim, «Either socialism will defeat the louse, or the louse will defeat socialism.»

1 By contrast, the native Africans exhibited a very high tolerance to infectious disease including malaria carried by mosquitos, typhus and fevers transmitted by lice and sleeping sickness borne by the tsetse fly.

«In an effort to combat a potential typhus outbreak,» reports today's Los Angeles Times, «city officials zeroed in on two schools in [a] densely packed [Santa Ana] neighborhood and set a dozen traps to catch feral cats and other animals that might carry disease - bearing fleas.»

Recent assessments conducted on the impacts of climate change on health in Australia, highlight the potential for the onset of and increases in vector - borne, water - borne and food - borne diseases such as: malaria, dengue fever, Murray Valley encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, melioidosis, leptospirosis and scrub typhus.