Sentences with phrase «ingesting contaminated water»

Dogs become infected by ingesting contaminated water, food or feces.

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease that can be transmitted to humans (and other animals) by ingesting infected cat feces, consuming raw or undercooked infected meat, or ingesting contaminated water.

Leptospirosis and giardia are two common and serious infections that can result when your pet ingests contaminated water.

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An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

Hepatitis A is a viral liver disease transmitted by ingesting contaminated food or water through direct contact with an infected person.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that each year 1.4 million individuals worldwide are infected with HAV — a viral liver disease that is transmitted by ingesting contaminated food or water, or direct contact with someone infected with the virus.

Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by ingesting food or water contaminated with the bacterium, Vibrio cholerae.

S. Typhimurium, which can be transmitted by ingesting contaminated food or water, is a pathogen that grows in the gastrointestinal tract of many animal species.

Always buy organic food and filter your drinking water to avoid ingesting pesticides that contaminate groundwater.

Adult dogs typically ingest them through contaminated water.

For a full diagnosis, your vet will want to know what your pet has consumed over the last few days including eating or drinking anything suspicious while out on a walk as bacterial infections can develop from contaminated water or from ingesting dead animals.

Anything that eats the feces, or drinks water contaminated by it, will ingest the cyst.

Plus, cats can accidentally ingest feces, soil or contaminated water.

While infectious bacteria and viruses can't live indefinitely outside a host animal, a feline friend can ingest them if she uses bedding, water and food bowls, or toys that have been contaminated.

The parasite can be ingested from aerosolized cat feces in settings like horse barns inhabited by «barn cats» and by drinking contaminated water.

Protozoan species of the genus Cryptosporidium, such as Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum, can cause diarrhea in human hosts who have ingested as few as 10 microscopic oocysts (egglike structures that are made of chitin, the same protein that forms the exoskeletons of ants and other insects) contained in feces or contaminated water.

In short, we too, are hoping to bring clean, safe, and drinkable water to those forced to ingest that which is contaminated and diseased.