When domestic animals are properly vaccinated and receive all the care they need, they are unlikely to get sick. However, other factors can influence your health, such as going outside and living in risk areas for a certain disease.
In this regard, in addition to worrying about the health of pets because we care about them, we must take into account that there are diseases that pets can transmit to humans as well. These diseases are called Zoonoses.
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the zoonoses
So we can emphasize that zoonoses are diseases that animals – in general, not just domestic ones – can transmit to us. There are several known zoonoses that come from different agents, from bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses.
They are public health problems and therefore, in general, States and Municipalities have programs to control and prevent these diseases.
Get to know some zoonoses that you can acquire from your pet and the risks to your health:
Anger
This disease has a lethality of almost 100% because its causative virus, from the Rhabdoviridae family, infects nervous tissue and therefore leads to death in most cases.
Transmission can be through contact with saliva, bite or scratches from infected animals. In humans, the first symptoms take 30 to 50 days to appear and can cause excessive agitation, paralysis and salivation.
However, to prevent and ensure the health of the pet, both of you just need to take the rabies vaccine.
sporotrichosis
The transmission of this zoonosis can be through contact with the saliva of sick cats or scratches.
It's caused by the fungus Sportothrix schenckii, it lives naturally in soil and plants, so it's possible to contract it by working in the dirt without gloves, if you have an injury.
The main sign of this disease is the appearance of a large lump on the skin, it causes pain and grows until it forms pus. If left untreated, it will spread throughout the body and cause breathing problems.
Toxoplasmosis
Finally, we have toxoplasmosis, which is a well-known disease and the parasite that causes this disease (Toxoplasma gondii), uses cats as hosts.
To become infected, it is enough to come into contact with the feces of the infected cat or water and food contaminated by parasite cysts.
This zoonosis can cause serious problems for pregnant women and fetuses, immunosuppressed people are also affected by this disease.
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