Sentences with phrase «infect humans and other mammals»
The organism that causes toxoplasmosis is a parasite that uses cats as its primary host, but it can also infect humans and other mammals.
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Change in viral levels over time might reveal when and how the bats infect other mammals — and ultimately humans.
Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.
It is transmitted by mosquitoes — which feed on infected birds or other animals — to horses, humans and other mammals.
Occasionally a mosquito that has bitten an infected bird will then bite a human, horse or other mammal and transmit the virus to them.
The primary hosts are domestic and wild dogs (wolves, coyotes, foxes, etc.), but it can infect cats, humans, and other mammals.
Rabies Vaccination Infection with Rabies virus results in fatal neurological disease and infected dogs can transmit the disease to humans and other mammals.
Infection with Rabies virus results in fatal neurological disease and infected dogs can transmit the disease to humans and other mammals.
Ringworm is not caused by worms, but by fungi of several different species that infect the skin of humans and many other mammals.