Sentences with phrase «infected wild mammals»

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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.

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).

The primary hosts are domestic and wild dogs (wolves, coyotes, foxes, etc.), but it can infect cats, humans, and other mammals.