Sentences with phrase «spread by fleas»

A common mycoplasma disease spread by fleas is hemobartonellosis.

The reason is that the disease is spread by fleas.

Neither kills tapeworm but because these worms are spread by fleas and these products kill fleas, there is less chance of infection with tapeworms.

Rabies, salmonella, and diseases spread by fleas and ticks such as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever can be a problem.

The most common type of tapeworm is spread by fleas.

This is spread by fleas feeding on cats with this bacterial infection, and then moving to your cat.

The disease — typically spread by fleas that carry the bacteria and can infect humans or small rodents, like rats — remains a threat, with minor outbreaks still common in Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

Researchers speculate that if invading armies from the Russian steppe brought plague with them into Europe — even if it didn't spread by fleas — it could have wiped out small bands of European farmers and made their territory vulnerable to invasion, much as Spanish conquistadors infected Native Americans with smallpox.

Not exact matches

But across Europe, rising temperatures due to global warming will expose pets to infectious diseases spread by ticks, fleas and flies, warns new research published in a special issue of Veterinary Parasitology.

Plague, in all its terrible forms, is caused by the Yersinia Pestis bacterium, usually spread through flea bites.

Throughout their study, Salkeld and Antolin found that grasshopper mice and coyotes that scavenge plague - killed prairie dogs can speed transmission of the disease by spreading the disease - carrying fleas.

That's one reason I took notice of this week's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about vector - borne illnesses, a.k.a. diseases spread by insects like ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes.

It was a miracle then, but now we know that the illness was spread by lice and fleas and lavender is such a great insect repellent that it kept people healthy by keeping insects away from them.

The plague was spread by the bites of fleas that had left their usual hosts of rats and mice and begun to bite people.

Since fleas puncture the skin and draw blood, they can spread several different diseases and the bite marks can also become infected by bacteria and other micro organisms that are harmless when they live on the skin of the dog, but harmful when they get a chance to multiply inside an open wound.

This is because the virus is spread by bites from mosquitoes, flies, fur mites and fleas.

Flea collars are also relatively popular: they work by spreading the medication from the collar on to your dog's skin and coat, thus repelling and killing any fleas.

Help spread the word by letting your friends and colleagues know about this problem, and importantly, sign our petition for better regulation of concentrated permethrin - based flea products.

By spreading the hair or using a flea comb, you may see fleas or black specks that look like dirt.

Fleas not only cause discomfort by biting your dachshund, which makes them itch, but it can also lead to other health problems such as skin allergies, Lyme disease and spread of tapeworms.

During this time the bubonic plague was also of great concern killing millions world wide as it was often spread by rats harboring fleas that carried the infection.

A highly contagious viral disease caused by the feline parvovirus, usually spread when cats come into contact with the blood, urine, fecal matter, nasal secretions, and even fleas from other infected cats.

Neither did Linn ever link the «scientific» arguments for purging cats voiced in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries to the cat - purging ailurophobia that repeatedly swept medieval Europe in the name of fighting Satan ---- and escalated the spread of the Black Plague, carried mostly by fleas on rodents.

Fleas can spread diseases to people and animals by passing along organisms or bacteria that cause other diseases.

RHD is spread by direct contact between rabbits (both wild and domesticated) but also via indirect contact such as from people, clothing, on shoes, other objects, fleas and other parasites.

Tapeworms can also be spread by eating contaminated fleas.

If your puppy has fleas, he may well have tapeworms too because these internal parasites are spread by infected fleas.

It works by spreading the medication starting from dog's coat to skin and thereby destroys fleas.

By spraying your pet and using a soft cloth to spread the solution, you'll begin to notice that the fleas no longer move as quickly, until they finally begin dying off.

When looking for fleas check on the back, tail, stomach, thighs and neck either by spreading the hair apart or by combing the hair with a dog flea comb.

Preventing the infestation of fleas can be done by starting when weather first starts getting warm and treating pets, yard, and home to prevent spreading of infestation, if it occurs.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Cat Scratch Fever can also be transmitted by fleas and ticks and can spread from cats to people.

We think it is spread by the cat flea.

Another flea - spread disease that affects both cats and dogs is caused by Bartonella henselae bacteria.

Vector - borne diseases are illnesses spread by insects or arachnids (the vectors) like mosquitoes, fleas, mites, or ticks.