Showing posts with label zoonotic diseases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoonotic diseases. Show all posts
Monday, August 14, 2023

Bird flu is a zoonosis and domestic cats are getting it in Poland

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At the moment, the word "zoonosis" is being used quite a lot in online news media and I'll tell you why. "Zoonosis" ...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Toxoplasma gondii protozoan parasite hijacks immune cells to travel around body

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The toxoplasma gondii protozoan parasite hijacks immune cells in order to effectively travel around the body of its host without being attac...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

More than 36 out of 5000 tests on cats and dogs proved positive for Covid

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The Sun Sentinel tells us that one manufacturer providing Covid PCR tests for pets, IDEXX Laboratories, tested over 5,000 specimens from dog...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

No Covid vaccinations for pets because they aren't a priority

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NEWS AND COMMENT: We, the public, know that lions, tigers and bears have been given Covid vaccinations. This tells us unequivocally that the...
Friday, July 2, 2021

Cats and dogs often catch Covid when their owners are infected

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The word "often" in the title is a bit startling. It was known that cats can get the disease from their owners but until recently ...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Domestic cat contracts TB from badger

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A domestic cat in Ireland contracted TB from a badger which had been vaccinated with the BCG vaccine. I don't have any more information...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Australian scientist claims that diseases transmitted by cats to people cost the Australian economy AU$6 billion annually

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I find this extraordinary. Unfortunately I don't have access to the full article by Donna Lu on the newscientist.com website because yo...