Sentences with phrase «typhus also»
In Texas, where outbreaks of flea - born typhus also occur, officials have found that fleas on pet dogs rather than on cats are more likely to harbor the infection.
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The pilgrims probably also spread many diseases including smallpox, measles, tuberculosis (TB), and typhus.
Also, comparisons of S. typhi with E. coli and other S. enterica genomes showed that 204 S. typhi genes are nonfunctioning.
Murine typhus (endemic typhus) fever, and in some cases tapeworms, Hymenolepis, can also be transmitted by fleas.
They also spread disease including tapeworms, hemoplasmas, plague, tularemia, Rickettsia typhi, Rickettsia felis and Bartonella.
A pooch with fleas is also susceptible to contracting tapeworms, anemia, mange, typhus and even the bubonic plague.
Fleas are a nuisance but can also transmit diseases to people such as bubonic plague, murine typhus and spotted fever.
Fleas will not only make you and especially your furry family member miserable, but they can also be the cause of tapeworm (when the flea is ingested), flea - borne typhus (carried by feral cats and wild animals that may frequent your yard), cat flea rickettsiosis, and flea allergic dermatitis.
The risk that cat fleas pose to humans is also consequential, since these tiny insects can harbor such zoonotic agents as those that cause such human diseases as cat - scratch disease (Bartonella henselae), murine typhus, and plague.
Another story from KTLA - TV (perhaps from Thursday, though it's unclear) suggests that this isn't all about typhus: «Orange County Vector Control will be out here at Willard Intermediate... and El Sol Science and Arts Academy not only to trap feral cats and test them for typhus, but to also help control the population, which they say they've fielded a lot of complaints about lately.»
For instance, recent evidence suggests that cultural values of collectivism also serve an «anti-pathogen defence» whereby behavioural manifestations of collectivism, such as conformity and parochialism, function as buffers against the transmission and increased prevalence of disease - causing pathogens (e.g. malaria, typhus and tuberculosis)(Fincher et al. 2008).