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Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease: PrP vCJD: cattle eating meat from animals with Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) 1996–2001: United Kingdom. Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever orthonairovirus: cattle, goats, sheep, birds, hares tick bite (Hyalomma spp.), human-to-human contact via bodily fluids Cryptococcosis ...
In studies it is unclear if the sex predilection is due to the increased roaming of intact animals or another reason. [2] The most common seasons for the disease to become apparent are spring and summer and appear to affect outdoor cats the most often. The reason that outdoor cats get infected more is due to the increased exposure to ticks.
List of aquarium diseases; List of dog diseases; List of feline diseases; List of diseases of the honey bee; List of diseases spread by invertebrates; Poultry disease; Lists of zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that have jumped from an animal to a human
A zoonosis (/ z oʊ ˈ ɒ n ə s ɪ s, ˌ z oʊ ə ˈ n oʊ s ɪ s / ⓘ; [1] plural zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that can jump from a non-human vertebrate to a human.
Main article: Human parasite Endoparasites Protozoan organisms Common name of organism or disease Latin name (sorted) Body parts affected Diagnostic specimen Prevalence Source/Transmission (Reservoir/Vector) Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and Acanthamoeba keratitis (eye infection) Acanthamoeba spp. eye, brain, skin culture worldwide contact lenses cleaned with contaminated tap water ...
About 200 Americans are killed per year by animals, according to one study, and the most common perpetrators may be surprising. ... next with 28 human victims, and cows kill about 20, mostly farm ...
The phlebotomic action opens a channel for contamination of the host species with bacteria, viruses and blood-borne parasites contained in the hematophagous organism. Thus, many animal and human infectious diseases are transmitted by hematophagous species, such as the bubonic plague, Chagas disease, dengue fever, eastern equine encephalitis, filariasis, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, malaria ...
But while the human migration happened only 20,000 years ago and appears to be mostly unidirectional, cats appear to have migrated back and forth as many as 10 times beginning nine million years ...