Sentences with phrase «infect dogs and other animals»

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The infected mosquito must first land on and bite an affected dog or other animal to carry heartworm.

Unfortunately, your dog can pick up a wide range of parasites from the soil and other infected animals whether you realize it or not.

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.

As the animal's urine will be infectious, you may need to isolate it from other animals — dogs for example can infect other dogs and livestock by urine - marking their areas in wet weather, when the urine doesn't dry out as quickly.

Coccidia are a group of protozoan parasites that are extremely common and which infect a wide number of animal species, including dogs, cats, horses, cattle, goats, sheep and chickens — and many other species of animals, as well.

«Heartworm is incredibly common in the Southern states, but is found throughout the U.S. Dogs, and also cats and a few other animals, are infected through the bite of a mosquito,» she said.

It is contracted from the feces of infected dogs and can be transmitted on shoes, car tires, other animals, food bowls and pavement.

Cats and dogs can also become infected by licking and / or eating grass and dirt and other soiled items that contain infective eggs or by eating prey animals that have already been infected.

Dogs and cats infected with the virus should be housed separately from other animals and precautions should be taken to prevent spread of the virus on hands and clothing.

The definitive host is the dog, but it can also infect cats, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and other animals, such as ferrets, bears, sea lions and even, under very rare circumstances, humans.

There are different species of Brucella that infect sheep, goats, cattle, deer, elk, pigs, dogs, and other animals.

Dogs can catch Leptospira bacteria from water or soil that is contaminated with infected urine from rodents and other wild animals.

The swift - moving illness is spread by a bacteria in the urine of rats, skunks, raccoons and other infected animals, which dogs can come in contact with through contaminated water or moist soil.

An annually vaccinated dog can be unprotected for up to nine months of the year; and infected dogs — irrespective of vaccination — are hidden infective reservoirs, capable of spreading lepto to humans and other animals.

Equine influenza viruses do not infect humans, dogs or other animals, although an equine influenza virus mutated to infect dogs approximately 15 years ago and is now circulating as a low - pathogenicity canine influenza virus in the dog population, mostly infecting dogs in shelter environments.

Just like dogs, cats can be bitten by a mosquito to become infected and this is true for many other animals too.

The mites can and do infect humans and other animals, but they prefer dogs when seeking hosts.

Pets can become infected through contact with urine of infected animals such as raccoons, skunks, rats, feral cats, dogs, and other animals.

Because infection can potentially spread over a dog's body and infect other animals and people, it is important that you see your vet for an accurate diagnosis if your pet is showing any signs of a skin problem.

While searching for the other dog, she found Sweet Pea who had been brought in by animal control with severely infected wounds on her head and front legs as she was a victim of dog - fighting.

The definitive host is the dog but it can also infect cats and other animals.

Mosquitoes bite an infected wild canine species (such as coyotes), infected dogs or infected raccoons and then pass the «baby larvae» to other animals, including unprotected dogs, cats or ferrets not on a heartworm preventative.

When a mosquito feeds on the blood of an infected animal, it can easily transfer the larvae to other dogs and cats.

Together with his team, Parrish is showing in detail how those viruses jumped into and spread between dogs and how they sometimes infect other animals — including cats and wild species such as raccoons and foxes.

They are also revealing more details about how those viruses infect and spread between dogs, as well cause disease in the other animals they infect.

Heartworm disease is spread by mosquitos when they bite an infected dog (or some other animals) and then transfer it to the next dog during their future blood meal.

To keep from spreading the virus to other animals, infected dogs and cats should be isolated from other pets for two weeks.

Another thing to consider is that while these worms are usually more common in dogs, they can also infect other animals and even people.

Dogs who aren't vaccinated are at risk of contracting rabies from animals such as bats, raccoons and foxes, and once your dog is infected he can give rabies to other animals and even to people.

Similarly feline immunodeficiency virus, which is similar to HIV in people, only affects cats and can not infect people or other animals such as dogs.

«Importing dogs that may be infected with rabies, other zoonotic and / or infectious diseases puts American citizens and animals at risk of illness or death and should not be allowed,» Strand says.

Other sources of infection are wild animals that visit the kennel area and deposit infected feces in an area accessible to the dog.

Like humans, some dogs and cats can become carriers and can infect other animals or humans.

Ringworm in Pets Ringworm fungi can infect dogs, cats, rabbits, farm animals, and other mammals.

Infection of other animals and humans can occur, either by direct contact with an infected dog or through contact with fungal spores in a contaminated environment.

Giardia is a parasitic organism that causes diarrhea and can infect other animals and people as well as dogs.

Heartworm can infect dogs, cats, wolves, coyotes, foxes, and other small animals.

Neither virus causes fatalities in healthy people, but there are several other arboviral infections (various encephalitis viruses, yellow fever, west Nile fever and Rift Valley fever) carried by the insect as well as a dog roundworm that also infects wild animals and cats.