Sentences with phrase «contact with animal feces»

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A dog can become infected with CAV - 1 through direct contact with an infected animal or contaminated objects (e.g., food dishes or feces).

While companion dogs are usually kept indoors and often do not come into contact with tainted meat or other wild animals that may have worms, contact with other dogs or feces in the park may cause transmission of parasitic worms like heartworm, tapeworm and roundworms.

Other known methods of transmitting the infection include physical contact with saliva, feces, or the infected animal itself.

Employees should wash their hands with soap and water (or use an alcohol - based hand cleaner if soap and water are unavailable) before and after handling each dog; after coming into contact with a dog's saliva, urine, feces, or blood; after cleaning cages; and upon arriving at and before leaving the facility (see «I work in a kennel / animal care facility.

Panleukopenia is transmitted through contact with an infected animal's bodily fluids or feces, as well as by fleas.

Parvovirus is extremely contagious and can be transmitted by any person, animal or object that comes in contact with an infected dog's feces.

It's a killer disease, highly contagious and particularly lethal to puppies, passed between animals through contact with feces — even a speck on fur.

Most dogs are exposed to the canine distemper virus either by inhaling respiratory secretions from an infected animal or by coming into direct contact with an infected dog's saliva, urine or feces.

Your dog can get worms by coming in contact with feces or by eating another animal in water such as a pond or lake.

Young children and immune compromised adults, including seniors, should not be exposed to animals being fed a raw diet, and should especially not have any contact with their feces.

Most dogs are exposed to the virus that causes canine distemper when they inhale the respiratory secretions of an infected animal, or come in direct contact with infected feces, urine or saliva.

They may become infected with parasites at birth (passed from their mother through the placenta or milk) or become infected through contact with infected feces or other infected animals.

Even the most housebound cat may venture outdoors at some time and can be exposed to diseases and worms through contact with other animal's feces.

Notably, in providing recommendations for reducing the zoonotic risk associated with pet bites and other exposure to pet saliva, urine and feces, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Public Health Service suggest simple measures such as sanitation, hygiene, careful selection of pets and changes in animal contact.

Dogs of any age can get hookworms from the feces of infected animals, such as by licking their paws or grooming themselves after coming into contact with infected fecal material.