Sentences with phrase «transmit infectious diseases»

Even though bed bugs are not believed to carry and transmit infectious diseases, they can still cause you to suffer serious injuries.

• Raw meat; although an excellent source of animal protein, it can transmit infectious diseases like toxoplasmosis.

Ticks can also cause itchy lumps or allergic reactions in people, and can transmit some infectious diseases.

Ticks can transmit infectious diseases such as Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis, and Babesiosis and also cause «Tick paralysis» which is the result of a neurotoxin being transferred from tick to pet.

«Human milk is a body fluid like saliva, blood, or semen, so it can transmit infectious diseases,» says Keim — including HIV and hepatitis C and B. «Human milk can also carry with it any drugs or pharmaceuticals that donor might be taking,» she adds.

In the paper, the authors stressed that understanding the genetic makeup of these molluscs is important because many «freshwater snails are intermediate hosts for flatworm parasites and transmit infectious diseases» to humans and other animals.

«But the problem is that with placenta consumption, there is a possible harm — mainly the harm of transmitting infectious diseases from the mother to the baby.

Established in 1959, BSRI is the leading program in the U.S., and perhaps the world, with respect to transfusion - transmitted infectious diseases, and is at the forefront of several other areas of transfusion medicine research.

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The CDC has case after case of infectious diseases being caught and transmitted in hospitals - from affluent areas down to the poorest hosptials.

Never allow your teen to use anyone else's razor, as infectious diseases can be transmitted that way.

All egg donors are screened for infectious diseases to reduce the risk that their eggs could transmit a disease to the patient.

Your partner has an infectious disease, another type of infection, or virus: If your partner has a health issue, especially one that's transmitted through the mouth, he can give it to you and your baby through contact at the breast.

Joining in the ribbon cutting are Housing Works CEO Charles King, Levine, Barrio, Dr. Sue Blank, the city's assistant commissioner for sexually transmitted disease control, Bassett, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the city's deputy commissioner for disease control, TAG's Jeremiah Johnson, Dr. Eunmee Chun, director of sexual health at the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Dr. Freddy Molano, vice president of Infectious Diseases and LGBTQ Programs at the Community Healthcare Network, and McMorrow.

«We found that in each of the regions we could analyze, Zika virus circulated undetected for many months, up to a year or longer, before the first locally transmitted cases were reported,» says Bronwyn MacInnis, an infectious disease geneticist at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Mass. «This means the outbreak in these regions was under way much earlier than previously thought.»

The principles of infectious disease are the same as they have always been, but modern conditions, including life in proximity to pets and mammal - filled woods, are exposing us to new pathogen reservoirs and new modes of transmitting disease.

At the time, Penelope Hitchcock, the chief of the sexually transmitted disease branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), hailed the work as critical to developing better drugs.

Public health efforts to prevent epidemics of infectious diseases typically rely on herd immunity: The more people in a community are vaccinated or otherwise protected from a disease, the less likely it is to be transmitted throughout the population.

«Tracing social and risk networks has been found to help locate people recently infected with HIV, given that the virus is transmitted through sexual and injection risk networks,» said Friedman, director of the Institute for Infectious Disease Research at NDRI and associate director and senior theoretician at CDUHR.

Her research focuses on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a class of brain diseases that includes «mad cow disease» and that can be transmitted by injecting or ingesting infectious tissue.

Epstein spoke of cases in which higher altitudes become prone to infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes.

Biting insects transmit several equine diseases, such as equine infectious anaemia, as well as leaving painful bites.

Dengue fever is an infectious disease caused by virus and transmitted to persons by mosquitoes.

Indeed, infectious prions are solely composed of preformed aggregates of misfolded prion protein, which transmit disease by seeding the aggregation of the endogenous prion protein, resulting in the accumulation of large quantities of these toxic aggregates in the brain (Prusiner, 1998; Soto et al., 2006).

A series of exciting recent studies suggested that the process of protein misfolding and aggregation implicated in various PMDs can be transmitted by administration of preformed, misfolded protein aggregates, in a way reminiscent of the transmission of prion diseases by infectious prions (Prusiner, 2012; Soto, 2012; Jucker and Walker, 2013).

By contrast, infectious diseases can be transmitted horizontally (in addition to vertically) to unrelated or unknown individuals, and those at risk of exposure are often unaware of their risk.

In the case of infectious diseases, we may be able to identify those at increased risk of contracting or transmitting infection, or those more or less likely to respond to interventions, before we have safe and effective interventions to offer, or before policy can be modified.

By using bats as a model system Daniel G. Streicker shows how infectious diseases can be transmitted between species.

They transmit several serious diseases including malaria, one of the most common infectious diseases in the world.

The Committee has been investigating the use of GM insect technologies to fight infectious disease and to control agricultural pests as the technology now exists to render insects unable to transmit diseases, and to reduce insect populations to minimise their threat to animals and crops.

An infectious disease caused by three different species of spiral - shaped bacteria, Lyme disease is commonly transmitted by ticks.

In spite of this public health authorities and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) hold on tight to a ridiculous view that it is only transmitted through tick bites.

1 By contrast, the native Africans exhibited a very high tolerance to infectious disease including malaria carried by mosquitos, typhus and fevers transmitted by lice and sleeping sickness borne by the tsetse fly.

Premarital health check ups help in preventing untoward instances of contracting infectious or sexually transmitted diseases, abandonment due to the same, reducing health risk for future progeny.

(B) publish a list of infectious and communicable diseases which are transmitted through handling the food supply;

Infectious diseases that can be transmitted from cats to humans is through the cat directly and its feces.

Lyme disease is an infectious disease transmitted by tick bite, most commonly the deer tick.

Consult with your veterinarian: Pet owners should be informed of ways to prevent their canine and feline companions from infectious diseases transmitted by fleas and ticks.

Infectious respiratory disease is a troublesome problem in dogs because it is easily transmitted through the air or by direct contact, especially in kennels or among dogs living together.

Infectious diseases can be transmitted from dogs and cats to owners that share sleeping space with them.

«Infectious tracheobronchitis is a mild self - limiting disease that results in inflammation of the upper airways transmitted by air and caused possibly but not surely by several different viruses, mainly Parainfluenza virus and also by a bacteria — Bordetella Bronchiseptica, however, the exact cause may vary.»

Ticks also can transmit infectious agents with their bite, including Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, and tick fever.

A licensed veterinarian shall oversee the handling, treatment and disposition of infectious waste including but not limited to carcasses, anatomical body parts, excretions, blood soiled articles or bedding that are generated from an animal that the licensed veterinarian knows or has reason to suspect has a disease that is capable of being transmitted to humans as provided under this section:

Their latest warning in June is due to Heartgard claiming zoonosis control (zoonosis is any infectious disease that is transmitted from other animals to humans or from humans to animals).

All pet owners must strive to prevent their canine and feline companions from contracting infectious diseases transmitted by fleas and ticks with lifestyle management and appropriate anti-parasitic medication.

Some infectious diseases are transmitted through pathogens on objects.

Public Health Issues «The public health trouble with TNR,» argues HAHF, «is that even vaccinated stray cats are still carriers of many significant infectious diseases and are able to transmit those diseases to other animals and humans.»

The public health trouble with TNR is that even vaccinated stray cats are still carriers of many significant infectious diseases and are able to transmit those diseases to other animals and humans.

Haemobartonellosis Haemobartonellosis (also known as feline infectious anemia) is a tick - and sometimes flea - transmitted disease.

This disease is also infectious and is typically transmitted by bite wounds.

There are some special circumstances regarding dogs imported from areas known to be infested with screwworms or foot and mouth disease but the general rule is that all dogs are only subject to inspection at ports of entry for evidence of infectious diseases that can be transmitted to humans.