Sentences with phrase «domestic animal host»

Not exact matches

She needed a farm to host an audacious experiment dreamed up by geneticist Dmitry Belyaev: to create a domestic animal as docile as a dog from aggressive, wily silver foxes.

The asymptomatic incubation period and the duration of the illnesses in various species of animal hosts is discussed along with information on additional species of Old World and New World monkeys and the domestic cat, which have been shown to be susceptible to subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies.

Although T. brucei gambiense has also been found in various wild and domestic animal species, these are usually considered sporadic, «dead - end» hosts, from which the disease isn't transmitted further.

While heartworms can infect more than 30 species of animals, such as ferrets, domestic cats, foxes, and other wild animals in the dog family, canines are considered the definitive host for these devastating worms.

Listen to Allie's webinar on Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF - T), hosted by the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (September 2011)

These include showing a film (Racing Extinction or Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret) and hosting a speaker from Harbor House, a shelter for victims of domestic violence and their companion animals, to speak about the link between domestic violence and animal abuse.

The Animal Welfare Institute hosts the Safe Havens Mapping Project for pets of domestic violence victims.

March 17, 2015: New York City — The Intersection Between Anti-Gay Bullying, Domestic Violence, and Animal Rights, hosted by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at the Cardozo Law School

February 23, 2016: Camden: New Jersey — Seminar and panel on the link between Domestic Violence and Animal Cruelty, hosted by Rutgers Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and WLC.

The Animal Welfare Institute hosts the Safe Havens Mapping Project for pets of domestic violence...

Dogs are considered the most common host for heartworms, however heartworms may also infect more than thirty species of animals (including coyotes, foxes, wolves, domestic cats, ferrets) and even humans, though transmission from animal to human (zoonotic infection) is extremely rare.

Control of canine distemper outbreaks includes the removal of carcasses of animals which have died from the disease, vaccination of susceptible domestic species to decrease the number of susceptible hosts, and a reduction in wildlife populations which also reduces the number of potential hosts.

The FWCC itself acknowledges the following: cats are the most common carriers of rabies among domestic animals, and can transmit rabies to wildlife such as raccoons, skunks an foxes; feline leukemia virus, a leading cause of death due to infectious disease in cats, has been reported in a mountain lion, a close relative of the endangered Florida panther; domestic cats were identified as one possible reservoir host for feline panleukopenia, which has been discovered in the Florida panther.