Sentences with phrase «infected animals so»

It is important to minimize the contamination of environmental soil with the feces of infected animals so as to reduce the exposure hazard to humans and other animals.

It is important to minimize the contamination of environmental soil with the feces of infected animals so as to reduce the exposure hazard to both humans and other animals.

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He added the risk to the UK is low: «It can only really be picked up by direct contact with an animal or someone who's infect so people in the UK are quite safe.»

«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.

«A phage is a virus that specifically infects a bacterium so it can't infect people and it can't infect animals and it can't infect plants.

So I did my measurements, and I could see what was different in the adult versus the neonatally infected animals.

«Is it worth culling so many animals for 16 per cent fewer infected herds?

«We're trying to learn, when the virus infects the mosquito, if it increases the presence of the metabolite, and whether we could exhaust that resource or increase the harmfulness of the resource so that the virus can't be passed on to another animal or human,» said Chotiwan.

Animal handlers at zoos and research centers occasionally get infected with SFV, so far without known adverse health effects.

Another hospital gave me penicillin so my animals wouldn't get infected, and I found a guy who worked at one of the state labs who had a centrifuge and chemicals in his basement — that's where I extracted the DNA.

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.

Unfortunately for animals, Chlamydiapsittaci can also be transmitted through mucous membranes such as the eyes and urogenital tract, so mothers can give it to newborns and males can become infected through fighting.

So far the Hendra - like virus has not actually been isolated from pigs, but the fact that some pigs are dying suggests that they are infected with something other than Japanese encephalitis — which rarely kills the animals.

But because canine distemper virus can infect so many different species of animals — including many that coexist with tigers as well as the domestic dogs often found on the edges of tiger territory — the big cats can have many opportunities for exposure.

But with no evidence of a large asymptomatic population so far, Kellam and his colleagues favor a second scenario: MERS evolved and diversified in animals and then infected humans on multiple occasions.

While researchers could not identify how a particular animal became infected, treponemal infections are known to be transmitted by contact with the skin lesion of an infected individual, so a pet macaque could potentially pick up the bacteria, said Lisa Jones - Engel, a UW research assistant professor of anthropology who led the study.

By the eighth day, a time when the three control monkeys infected with a common human flu virus were recovering, the experimental animals were so sick that they had to be euthanized.

Crystal infected baby toads in the laboratory, and found that the lungworm was devastating for the tiny animals - about 30 % died, and the remainder grew more slowly, moved more slowly, and so on.

So keeping your pets isolated from infected and carrier animals or places where they frequent is a much better approach.

Negative results may occur even when animals are infected depending on timing of sampling or excessive blood in stool, so an ill animal with negative test results may require further testing and care and should still be handled as though infectious.

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.

But flu viruses are great at adapting themselves to infect other animals, so there's always a risk people could get it, Adalja says.

That said, even the best vaccines take some time to provide protection, and vaccine failure may occur when animals enter the shelter already infected with disease, or if they fail to respond to the vaccine, or are exposed before they are able to do so.

Believe it or not, ticks can survive and infect other animals after being flushed down a toilet, so that is not the best disposal route.

The clinical manifestations of kennel cough typically show up within a week or so of exposure to infected animals.

Fortunately, each virus is pretty specific about what animals it can infect, so the dog parvovirus will not infect people, -LSB-...]

There is no treatment or vaccine for EIA, so surviving infected animals must be kept at least 200 yards from non-infected animals until they test negative for EIA.

Infected hair shafts will remain infectious for over a year so very thorough cleaning around infected animals is mInfected hair shafts will remain infectious for over a year so very thorough cleaning around infected animals is minfected animals is mandated.

We are building a wellness / isolation pod so that animals with treatable contagious diseases like kennel cough can recover without infecting the larger population.

Animal Control Officer Bob McIntosh said the dog's neck and jowl were infected, the canine was in pain and the owners did not retrieve their pet as they had said they would so he had the animal put to Animal Control Officer Bob McIntosh said the dog's neck and jowl were infected, the canine was in pain and the owners did not retrieve their pet as they had said they would so he had the animal put to animal put to sleep.

Ringworm is very durable in the environment and, if left untreated, can persist for months in carriers, furniture, carpets, dust and so on, and can infect animals housed in this contaminated environment.

Unlike demodectic mange that is not contagious, sarcoptic mange more like ear mites in that it is so contagious that usually if one is affected, all animals are infected.

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.

Furthermore, puppies and kittens are more likely to be housed in groups where fecal cross-contamination is common so they may be more likely to become infected than adult animals.

Furthermore, many of these microscopic parasites resist common disinfectants used to clean cages, so they persist in the animals» environments and continuously re-infect these pets as they eat in their cages; the infected pets continue to shed these infectious parasites in their stool, and the vicious cycle of re-infection is established.

Treatment for infected animals can be difficult and carries some risks, which makes heartworm preventatives so important.

Dr. Blagburn: First of all, the mosquito has to get infected, so there has to be a source animal, and that's the dog.

There is no documented evidence of person - to - person or animal - to - person transmission of the West Nile virus, so an infected horse can not infect a human or other horses.

Infected dogs can be contagious for two weeks, so keep pets — sick or healthy — away from close contact with other animals.

It is present in the urine of infected animals, so bodies of water, food (for instance, if rodents have access), soil, or even the beach (California sea lions carry leptospirosis) can easily be contaminated.

Rehm said that even though it's «easy» for veterinarians to kill heartworms in infected animals, doing so makes animals sicker in the short term, and necropsies of animals years after treatment can reveal petrified worms in «unbelievable places — around the valve of the heart, in major arteries and so on.»

Fortunately, each virus is pretty specific about what animals it can infect, so the dog parvovirus will not infect people, the cat parvovirus will not infect dogs, etc..