Sentences with phrase «immunocompromised cats»

All cats are susceptible to an infection, particularly young kittens and immunocompromised cats.

Typically parasites will not be fatal, but may cause severe complications in young kittens and immunocompromised cats.

Not exact matches

As is often the case, immunocompromised patients are predisposed, so if your cat has a condition that weakens her immune system, she's at higher risk.

Pregnant moms and immunocompromised people with cats who can not get someone else clean the litter box for them should wear gloves, clean the litter box promptly twice a day before the oocysts can become infective and wash their hands when finished.

Young children, the elderly, or immunocompromised individuals are at greatest risk from a zoonotic parasite your cat may harboring.

Dogs and cats are both susceptible — especially the young, old, and immunocompromised — and so are humans.

Even the CDC (Center for Disease Control) does not sanction cat declawing for immunocompromised pet owners.

However, since FeLV + and FIV + cats can carry several other contagious diseases, it is recommended that certain people who are immunocompromised avoid contact with those cats.

As far as the immunocompromised, the CDC does NOT recommend declawing, no personal physician should be recommending that their patients have their cat declawed.

According to the AAHA this situation does not warrant declawing your cat as made clear in this statement: «The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not list declawing as a means of preventing disease in either healthy or immunocompromised individuals.»

Nutrition is vital to any cat's well being, especially the immunocompromised.

Immunocompromised individuals exist in those countries that have outlawed declawing and they live in perfect harmony with their clawed cats.

If you are immunocompromised, it is not recommended that you keep a cat infected with FeLV or FIV.

Cats with claws may present an increased risk of injury or disease to those whose skin integrity may be compromised (e.g., the elderly, diabetics) or those who are immunocompromised (e.g., those living with HIV / AIDS).

Cats and dogs can develop subclinical infections with these organisms but still pose a risk to livestock, other nonhuman animals, and humans, especially children, older persons, and immunocompromised individuals.»

Although the disease only affects cats, it is recommended that immunocompromised people (ie chemo patients and human AIDS patients) not reside with FeLV positive cats because these cats are more likely to harbor opportunistic infections that could be transmitted to immunocompromised humans.

Very young and very old cats and dogs, and animals that are immunocompromised for some other reason, are the most likely to show signs of illness.

One cause of CIRDC, Bordetella bronchiseptica, can be contracted by cats and rarely can infect a severely immunocompromised person (for example — a person with AIDS or undergoing chemotherapy).

Most cats do not become ill from toxoplasmosis unless they are immunocompromised.