Tips Wary of Pet Disease Transmission in Children

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Are you or your child having a pet? Whether it are cats, dogs, rabbits, chickens, birds, etc...

Beware of diseases caused by these animals. It is possible that will transmit the disease to your family especially to your children who are still susceptible to various diseases.

Here are various diseases that attack pets, which can transmit to humans.

**Rabies disease**
Rabies disease, transmitted to humans through the bite of dogs, cats or monkeys, may also through wounds affected saliva animal rabies patients.

**Disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella**
Salmonella is a bacteria found in feces turtles can migrate to humans through physical contact, either directly or indirectly. Disease caused by salmonella is a health problem in the U.S., with an estimated 1.4 million nonthypoidal salmonella (salmonella is not the cause of typhoid disease) to cause infection in humans each year, which requires 15 thousand people have been hospitalized and 400 of them ended with the death.
It seems that the turtle is not a safe pet for the kids, after babies aged four weeks died, with tests on bacteria taken from the baby's match with those found in pet tortoise that was a gift given by an acquaintance of the baby's family.

**Avian Flu**
Flu is caused by fowl both birds and chickens are a disease that became endemic for the citizens of the world. Avian flu virus that was originally known only contagious among poultry, creating new mutations that can also infect humans. Mutation of this virus can infect humans in direct contact with secretions of infected poultry. Humans infected with high risk are children; because they have more body resistance is weak.

**Toxoplasmosis**
The disease is carried by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in mammals such as cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, and goats. However, usually this disease is more often found in cats.
Usually children love cats. In addition to benign, cats can be a friend, who can be caressed and adored. To avoid Toxoplasmosis disease, we recommend that you and your child need to consider is the cleanliness of a cat, both bathed regularly once a week, cleaning cages, food hygiene, do not let the cats defecate carelessly, and wash your hands and your child after contact or interact with the cats.

**Tularemia**
Often called rabbit fever, is caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. This disease, infecting mammals, particularly rodents such as rabbits and rats, although it can also infect birds, reptiles and fish.

By maintaining personal hygiene and cleanliness of the pet, be able to avoid a disease spread by our pets.


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