Ringworm is treated with antifungal medicines including shampoo, cream, or oral medicine. Toxocariasis : an illness caused by the parasitic roundworm Toxocara , which lives in the intestines of dogs and cats. The eggs from the worms are passed in the feces of dogs and cats, often contaminating soil where kids play. When a child ingests the contaminated soil, the eggs hatch in the intestine and the larvae spread to other organs, an infection known as visceral larva migrans.
Symptoms include fever, cough or wheezing, enlarged liver, rash, or swollen lymph nodes. Symptoms may clear up on their own or a doctor may prescribe drugs to kill the larvae. When the larvae in the intestine make their way through the bloodstream to the eye, it is known as ocular toxocariasis , or ocular larva migrans , which may lead to a permanent loss of vision.
Toxoplasmosis : contracted after contact with a parasite found in cat feces. In most healthy people, toxoplasma infection causes no symptoms. When symptoms do happen, they may include swollen glands, tiredness, muscle pain, fever, sore throat, and a rash. In pregnant women, toxoplasmosis can cause miscarriage, premature births, and severe illness and blindness in newborns.
Pregnant women should avoid contact with litter boxes. People whose immune systems have been weakened by illnesses such as HIV or cancer are at risk for severe complications from toxoplasmosis infection.
Dog and cat bites: may become infected and cause serious problems, particularly bites to the face and hands. Cat bites tend to be worse, partly because they are deeper puncture wounds. Significant bites should be washed out thoroughly.
Often these bite wounds require treatment in a doctor's office or emergency room; antibiotics are sometimes necessary. Page 3 Birds Pet birds, even if they are kept in a cage, may transmit these diseases: Cryptococcosis: a fungal disease contracted when someone inhales organisms found in bird droppings, especially from pigeons, that can cause pneumonia. People with weakened immune systems from illnesses such as HIV or cancer are at increased risk of contracting this disease and developing serious complications, such as meningitis.
Psittacosis: also known as parrot fever, a bacterial illness that can happen from contact with infected bird feces or with the dust that builds up in birdcages. Symptoms include coughing, high fever, and headache. It is treated with antibiotics. Reptiles and Amphibians Reptiles including lizards, snakes, and turtles and amphibians including frogs, toads, and salamanders put kids at risk for: Salmonellosis : Reptiles and amphibians shed Salmonella in their feces.
Touching the reptile's skin, cage, and other contaminated surfaces can lead to infection. Salmonellosis causes symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and fever. Young children are at risk for more serious illness, including dehydration , meningitis, and sepsis blood infection. Other Animals Handling and caring for rodents — including hamsters and gerbils — as well as fish can place kids at risk for: Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus LCMV : People can get LCMV by inhaling particles that come from urine, feces, or saliva from infected rodents, such as mice and hamsters.
Capsids alone cannot cause infection because they lack the internal machinery of the virus. The team studied the ability of capsids to bind to tissue samples from dog intestines in test tubes. They found evidence that seven different strains of human norovirus may be able to bind to canine gastrointestinal tissue. While they found no trace of virus in stool samples from dogs including some with diarrhea , they did find evidence of antibodies to human norovirus in blood samples from 43 out of dogs.
It is currently not known whether human norovirus can cause clinical disease in dogs. Assuming that it can, the study found no evidence that dogs can shed it in sufficient quantities to infect humans. However, the authors note that other studies have suggested as few as 18 virus particles can cause human infection.
There is also little evidence that dogs or animals are involved in spreading norovirus among people when large outbreaks occur, such as on cruise ships and in hospitals. Nevertheless, the authors conclude that their study provides sufficient evidence to warrant further investigation into whether human norovirus can survive in nonhuman animals and spread from them to people. Caddy says she got interested in doing the study through her experience as a small animal veterinarian and dog owner.
She says in her practice, dog owners often ask her if their dogs can pass infections onto them or whether they can pass them to their pets. Given how close we are with our dogs and the fact that they're not all that concerned about hygiene , it can make you wonder: Can my dog get me sick? Wesley Long, director of diagnostic microbiology at Houston Methodist. But, my fellow dog lovers, there's no need to fret.
Here's everything you need to know about staying healthy while sharing your home with your furry roomie. The same goes for the seasonal flu that we prepare for every year. In fact, dogs have their own version of the flu, called canine influenza. And this type of influenza is specific to infection with dogs — so you don't have to worry about picking up the flu from your dog either. Cats are the main hosts for a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii.
People can become infected with this parasite through contact with cat feces, which might happen when cleaning a cat's litter box, the CDC said.
Most people infected with the parasite do not show any symptoms. But in severe cases, the parasite can cause damage to the brain, eyes and other organs, the CDC said.
Severe infections are more likely in people who have weakened immune systems, such as those who are taking drugs to suppress their immune system. Toxoplasma gondii can also pass from mother to child during pregnancy, and a small percentage of infected infants have serious eye or brain damage at birth.
For this reason, the CDC recommends that pregnant women avoid changing cat litter. Some studies have linked infection with Toxoplasma gondii to the development of schizophrenia and symptoms of psychosis, such as hallucinations. However, a recent study found that owning a cat in childhood does not increase the risk of experiencing psychotic symptoms later in life. The bacteria called Capnocytophaga lives in the mouths of dogs and cats. In rare cases, people can become infected with Capnocytophaga through bites, scratches or even licks from an animal.
Most people who have contact with dogs and cats won't get sick, but people with weakened immune systems are at higher risk for infection, the CDC says. People who do become infected can experience diarrhea, fever, vomiting, headache or muscle pain. In severe cases, infection can lead to sepsis and even death. About 30 percent of people infected with the bacteria die, according to the CDC.
About 40 percent of cats carry a type of bacteria called Bartonella henselae at some point in their lives, and infection from these bacteria in people causes "cat scratch disease. Symptoms of the illness include infection at the wound site, fever, headache, poor appetite, exhaustion and swollen lymph nodes, according to the CDC. In rare cases, the disease may affect the brain, eyes, heart or other organs. To prevent infection, people should wash cat bites and scratches right away with soap and running water.
People with weakened immune systems should avoid adopting cats that are less than 1 year old, because young cats are more likely to carry Bartonella henselae , the CDC says.
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