Sentences with phrase «infected rabbits»

The disease is transmitted by direct contact with infected rabbits, rabbit products, rodents, and contamination of cages, dishes, and clothing.

It usually causes a latent condition in rabbits, meaning that most infected rabbits will show no symptoms.

However, infected rabbits often have little to no response to medical treatment.

This is a disease transmitted by fleas, or from contact with other infected rabbits or objects.

1990 — Researchers at the University of Rochester combine antibodies from infected rabbits with the live virus; the proof - of - concept vaccine successfully prevents foreskin - grafted mice from contracting HPV on their borrowed private parts.

Louis Pasteur developed the first rabies vaccine, made from the dried spinal cords of infected rabbits, and famously used it to save the life of a 9 - year - old Parisian boy in 1885.

Myxoma virus, a rabbit - specific virus related to the smallpox virus, infects rabbit cells by inhibiting rabbits» cellular virus - defenses.

«The scientists found that the naturally evolved weakening of the virus is actually beneficial for the virus because infected rabbits lived longer and were able to better transmit the virus.»

The bordetella bacteria that leads to kennel cough can also infect rabbits, guinea pigs, pigs and sickly cats [source: U.S. Federal News Service].

Most infected rabbits don't show any signs or symptoms until the rabbit is perhaps older, stressed or immunocompromised.

The disease is passed to humans by bites from infected ticks and deer flies infecting rabbits, hares & rodents.

Humans can easily develop tularemia through incidental contact with infected rabbits, cats, rodents or other animals (and the ticks or fleas that may be on them).

This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).

Hansen tried to infect rabbits, but it didn't take.

It is also acquired from contaminated thorns or thistles, or by direct contact with an infected rabbit.

Rabbits can get ear mites from direct contact with other rabbits, from being outside, and from our hands if we have recently handled an infected rabbit and then pet our own rabbit without washing.

Rabbits contract ringworm in a variety of ways including contact with another infected rabbit, brushes that were used on a rabbit with ringworm, and dirty environments.

Dogs most often pick up tapeworm eggs by swallowing an infected flea or eating flesh from an infected rabbit, rodent, or other host.

It is also a contagious disease that can spread by direct contact with an infected rabbit, contact with contaminated objects, or a doe (mother) can pass it on to her kits.

«Rabbits get infected in two ways: from food contaminated with the urine of an infected rabbit, or from the mother.»

Pasteurellosis - The Pasteurella bacteria that may infect a rabbit may also infect scratches or bite wounds to a person with a very low immune deficiency.

Since the pinworm is a direct life cycle with NO intermediate host, this means your rabbit got it from the feces of an infected rabbit (it didn't just happen to your rabbit).

Transmission of Pasteurella from an infected rabbit is often through direct contact with nasal secretions, including transmission through the air when the infected rabbit sneezes.