Nowadays, keeping a pet is not only a way modern people spice up their lives but also a channel keepers express their feelings. Pets and keepers are becoming more and more close, and some people even treat their pets like their own children. They sleep with their pets and even eat the same food. However, being too close to pets can lead to diseases contagious between humans and animals.
| If you think avian influenza which prevailed in Mainland China was just international news far away, then you must underestimate the devastating power of diseases contagious between humans and animals. Once there is a tiny little oversight in the quarantine work, these kinds of disease can travel a long way to here. Therefore, inspection and quarantine of animals and plants have played an important role in preventing those diseases, while refusing to buy questionable pets is the first step to keep off contagious animals. |
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Diseases which are contagious between humans and animals include Viral diseases such as rabies, avian influenza, tick-born encephalitis, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome; Clamydia contagious diseases include murine typhus, scrub typhus and psittacosis; bacterial contagious diseases include tuberculosis, Brucelosis, Salmonellosis, Anthrax, Glanders and plague; parasitic diseases include toxoplasmosis and flea-related dermatitis. These diseases can be fatal. Therefore, we have to learn how to prevent these diseases if we keep a pet. The websites of Bureau of Animals and Plants Health Council of Agriculture and livestock disease control centers would be the best channel to get those information.
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There are variety kinds of pets nowadays. Except the most common cats and dogs, mini pigs, fishes, birds, rodents and even reptiles such as turtles and lizards can now be pets. Yearly inoculations can prevent dogs and cats from being infected with certain diseases. But it is still very important to clean up the environment and wash your hands after touching or stoking your pets. Keep good sanitary habits is the basic requirement to prevent the diseases contagious between humans and animals. Before rearing certain uncommon pets, |
you have to learn their habits and set up a proper environment, to keep off those diseases.
Living with your pet(s), you have to consider whether the living environment is suitable for your pet(s). Mini pigs reared in an apartment might fall down because of the slippery floor, and they might have broken bones or sprain their lumbar vertebra and become paralyzed if they are heavy weight. You should keep the aquarium clean if you have turtles and fishes to avoid infections. Rabbits are very timid. When they are terrified, they will struggle and jump out of your hands, leading to broken bones and teeth. If you want to rear your rabbits in a cage, be sure to have a proper size. A cage which is too small will cause rabbits to become tense; when they are tense, they are likely to jump and hurt themselves.
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Although most pets are domestic, they are still animals. Therefore, if you are too close to them and relax your vigilance, you might still get scratched and bitten. It is often heard that keepers got bitten by their own cats and dogs. If bitten by cats, you might get ¡§cat-scratch disease¡¨ and it is possible to die of tetanus. Therefore, the last thing you might want to do is to irritate your pets. Keep a proper distance from pets is important, and once you get bitten, you had better go to the hospital to have tetanus vaccine.
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