Sentences with phrase «infect humans and pets»

Ticks can infect humans and pets with bacteria, viruses, and parasites that can cause serious illness.

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In addition to harboring diseases that affect humans, such as ringworm, distemper, toxoplasmosis, leptospirosis and rabies, infected pets have the potential to transmit diseases into wild populations of animals.

The strains that commonly infect domestic pets and livestock can all cause illness in humans, but as we explain in the topics list below, the bacteria are not airborne so simply sharing a house with the animal is perfectly safe.

Also, other pets will be at risk, if they are not already infected, and so will humans occupants.

The disease occurs when ticks infected by the Lyme Disease bacterium bite a pet (or a human) and transmit the pathogen into the body.

Luckily, regular fecal examinations allow us to diagnose roundworms, and routine deworming is sufficient treatment for your pet, decreasing any chance of human family members becoming infected.

Infected but otherwise healthy pets can be carriers and infect other animals or humans, according to the company.

Treatment of an infected pet is recommended since ringworm is highly contagious and can be passed to humans.

Considering that people can be infected regardless of vaccination status and that not everyone will be immunized, it's important that we recognize the potential for humans to pass a microorganism like the influenza virus to our pets.

Rabies is a fatal disease is spread to humans and their pets through the bite of an infected animal.

In addition to the common signs of intestinal parasites in dogs (diarrhea, vomiting, weight loss, loss of blood, lethargy), many intestinal parasites carried by our pets can also infect humans, and can even cause symptoms as serious as permanent blindness.

All of the parasitic worms listed above have the potential to infect other household pets, wild animals and humans.

It is important to remove these parasites for the sake of your pet, and also because humans can become infected.

Tapeworm can be transmitted to humans through direct contact with tapeworm - infected pets and their feces.

So it's not a complete surprise scientists have discovered the same behavioral changes associated with toxoplasmosis in rats and mice — reduced anxiety, fearlessness and an attraction to cat urine — are also expressed in humans infected with the oocysts, according to Peter Marra and Chris Santella, authors of «Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer.»

The healthy pets living with humans infected with MRSA have been tested and some found to carry the MRSA which appears to be the same in both the pet and the human.

The potential for colonization of pets has been known for many years and most often occurs via transmission by infected humans or from environmental contamination.

Also, fleas serve as an intermediate host for tapeworms, which can infect both your pet and humans.

As a general rule, humans infect other humans and household pets are not involved in transmission of flu to humans.

Preventing this disease from spreading to humans requires the vaccination of pets that might come into contact with wildlife infected with the disease and spreading it to other pets or humans.