Sentences with phrase «infect other animals and people»

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

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.

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The search should include family and other contacts of infected people, plus healthcare workers and the general population, as well as animals, he says.

Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.

There are many such others, and many of them can also occasionally infect animals or people.

So far, they haven't been able to find the virus's «animal reservoir» (the species it infects other than humans), or nail down how people are infected and how many mild or asymptomatic infections there are in the region.

Others will be stuck outside and will likely die of starvation, temperature extremes, be hit by cars, infected with lingering, debilitating diseases, stolen by laboratory dealers, used as bait by dogfighters, attacked by other animals, or tortured and / or killed by cruel people.

Infected animals can be carriers and infect other animals or people.

Infected animals and people will shed the bacteria in their feces, serving as a source of infection to others.

Limiting the infected pet to other animals and people can be effective in preventing the spread of ringworm, but anti-ringworm treatments are required to eliminate the infection at its source.

Treatment for infected animals includes limiting their exposure to other animals and people.

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.

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.