Sentences with phrase «infected animals need»

Valley Fever is a treatable disease but owners of infected animals need to be aware it can be a long process to completely clear this disease.

Young dogs often lack the ability to fight off the virus at all on their own, although all infected animals need treatment.

Not exact matches

«Animal viruses typically have all genome segments packaged together into a single viral particle, so only one of those particles is needed to infect a host cell,» Ladner explained.

More information is also needed on the exposure that infected people had to animals, Koopmans says.

This allowed for them to study infection in a model highly related to humans but without the need to infect a living animal.

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.

Where young children or pregnant mothers are involved greater precautions need to be taken, and we advise that pregnant mothers are totally isolated from contact with infected animals or their environment.

You need to wear such flea collars before the fleas have infected the animal or after the anti-flea processing.

In order for a mosquito to be a carrier of heartworm they need to first bite an infected animal.

Pets do not need to come into contact with the infected animals, only their urine which can be found in standing water, puddles, on top of pool covers, bird baths and the like.

And do we need to watch out for infected animals that may be of danger to not only our pets, but us as well?

Both shelters needed to temporarily shut down so that new animals were not infected and infected animals were not released in to the community, while testing occurred to deem animals clear of infection eventually.

Given that heartworm preventives are insecticides designed to kill heartworm larvae inside your animal, and therefore have the potential for short and long - term side effects damaging to your pet's health, the first bit of information you need is your dog's actual risk of exposure to infected mosquitoes.

Experts generally agree that BSE is most likely spread when cattle are fed meat and bone meal that contains brain or spinal cord from an infected animal, although recent atypical cases in the US suggest that more research is needed in this area.

In addition to medicating infected animals, pet owners need to practice good hygiene to prevent the spread of these parasites.