Sentences with phrase «infected wild animals»

We also know that areas can have heartworm infection in wild species such as coyotes, and these infected wild animals can be a source of infection to your dog or cat as well.

Cats and dogs can come into contact with infected wild animals.

Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal bacterial disease that can infect wild animals, domestic animals and humans.

If an infected wild animal uses these, dishes, his saliva will surely be left behind.

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.

Not exact matches

In Europe, the highly contagious disease is currently largely confined to wild boar and domestic pigs in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland but can be spread elsewhere following contact with infected animals.

But if you look at distemper — canine distemper and feline distemper had been decimating lion populations for years and years and years, and it's from domestic animals infecting wild populations.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

Disease in wild animals can have a greater impact on the health of others than on the infected animals themselves, a study suggests.

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.

While biofilm formation was abundant if the wild - type yeast was used, it was substantially reduced in animals infected with the mutant strain.

When animals were infected with both S. mutans and either the wild type or defective mutant yeast strains, the researchers observed clear differences.

In the case of a disease like heartworm, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and infects both wild animal populations and companion animals, there is some natural variation in both drug coverage and mixing.

The researchers also state that wild animals, such as foxes can be infected and could act as a reservoir if introduced.

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.

Your pet is most likely to pick up sarcoptic mange by being in contact with another infected dog or wild animal.

More than 20 species of mosquitoes are known to spread heartworm, and they can carry the infected larvae for miles, even transmitting the disease from wild animals (such as coyotes) to pets.

Dogs can develop heartworm disease by getting bit by a mosquito that has had contact with a heartworm infected mammal (which includes a large assortment of wild animals besides just dogs).

Even if your rabbit never comes into direct contact with animals from the wild, it can still become infected with this disease.

In addition, dogs should not be allowed to drink from stagnant or slow moving water, have contact with barnyard or wild animals, or with infected dogs.

While heartworms can infect more than 30 species of animals, such as ferrets, domestic cats, foxes, and other wild animals in the dog family, canines are considered the definitive host for these devastating worms.

It is important to remember that many wild animals can carry the disease and easily infect curious pets.

However, in Africa, Ebola may be spread as a result of handling bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food) and contact with infected bats.

When the infected mosquito bites another dog or cat or a disease - prone wild animal, the infective worms are then transferred to the animal through the mosquito bite wound.

Infected wild and domestic animals may continue to excrete the bacteria into the environment continuously or every once in a while for a few months up to several years.

When the mosquito bites another dog, cat, or wild animal, the infected larvae are deposited onto the surface of the animal's skin and enter the new host through the mosquito's bite wound.

Your pets would most likely get rabies by getting bit by a wild animal infected with the virus.

Dogs can catch Leptospira bacteria from water or soil that is contaminated with infected urine from rodents and other wild animals.

Mosquitoes bite an infected wild canine species (such as coyotes), infected dogs or infected raccoons and then pass the «baby larvae» to other animals, including unprotected dogs, cats or ferrets not on a heartworm preventative.

Most cats that become infected with rabies have been bitten by one of these wild animals, usually in the course of hunting or fighting.

Together with his team, Parrish is showing in detail how those viruses jumped into and spread between dogs and how they sometimes infect other animals — including cats and wild species such as raccoons and foxes.

On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Santa Ana Animal Services and Vector Control will be working cooperatively to capture wild animals in the area that may be infected with the disease.

It can also infect a variety of wild animals, including wild canids (e.g., foxes, wolves, coyotes), wild felids (e.g. tigers, lions, pumas), raccoons, opossums, and pinnipeds (e.g., sea lions and seals), as well as others.

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

Other sources of infection are wild animals that visit the kennel area and deposit infected feces in an area accessible to the dog.

One wild animal with distemper can infect everyone else that frequents the source.

They are primarily spread by eating infected feces from a wild animal or another dog.

Only domestic and wild canines are susceptible to B. canis; other domestic animals appear resistant when experimentally infected.

All efforts must be made to prevent this pathogen entering the wild amphibian population (eg, via release of infected animals or the discarding of contaminated water or fomites in amphibian habitats such as garden settings).