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Educating the public about the dangers of contact with raccoons or their feces is the most important preventive step. [4] Parents should encourage their children to practice good hygiene; Hand-washing after outdoor play or contact with animals is very important. Fences can be used to prevent raccoons from visiting homes, garbage, or yards for food.
Humans can then become infected if they consume dirt or soil, water, or any material contaminated with infected raccoon feces, according to the health department.
The eggs appear in the host species' feces. They can then be ingested by, and infest, a variety of other animals (including humans) that serve as paratenic hosts. [citation needed] Baylisascaris species include: Baylisascaris procyonis (of raccoons) [5] Baylisascaris melis (of European badgers) Baylisascaris transfuga (of bears)
Dirofilaria tenuis is introduced to the host (either a raccoon or, as in some rare cases, a human) as a larva when the vector, most commonly an Aedes or Anopheles mosquito, takes a blood meal and the parasite enters the host through the bite wound. Once inside the host, the larva molts into its final larval stage and then into an adult.
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The raccoon (/ r ə ˈ k uː n / or US: / r æ ˈ k uː n / ⓘ, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon [3] and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.