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Communicable Dog Bite Diseases
Although dogs can pass germs to people, you are not likely to get sick from touching or owning dogs. To best protect yourself from getting sick, thoroughly wash your hands with running water and soap after contact with dogs, dog saliva, or dog feces.
Dogs can carry a variety of germs that can make people sick. Some of these germs are common and some are rare. For example, puppies may pass the bacterium Campylobacter in their feces (stool). This germ can cause diarrhea in people. Less often, dogs in urban or rural areas can carry the bacterium Leptospira (lep-TO-spy-ruh). This germ causes the disease leptospirosis (lep-to-spi-roh-sis) in people and animals. Dogs can also carry rabies, a deadly viral disease.
Below, more dog-related diseases.
- Brucella canis Infection (brucellosis): A bacterial disease rarely associated with dogs.
- Campylobacter Infection (campylobacteriosis): A bacterial disease associated with dogs, cats, and farm animals.
- Cryptosporidium Infection (cryptosporidiosis): A parasitic disease associated with dogs, especially puppies, cats, and farm animals.
- Dipylidium Infection (tapeworm): A parasitic disease associated with dogs, cats and fleas.
- Giardia Infection (giardiasis): A parasitic disease associated with various animals, including dogs and their environment (including water).
- Hookworm Infection: A parasitic disease associated with dogs and cats and their environment.
- Leishmania Infection (leishmaniasis): A parasitic disease associated with dogs and sand flies outside the United States.
- Leptospira Infection (leptospirosis): A bacterial disease associated with wild and domestic animals, including dogs.
- Lyme Disease: A bacterial disease that can affect dogs and ticks.
- Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii): A bacterial disease occasionally associated with dogs.
- Rabies: A viral disease associated with various animals, including dogs.
- Ringworm: A fungal disease associated with dogs.
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: A bacterial disease associated with dogs and ticks.
- Roundworm: See Toxocara infection.
- Salmonella Infection (salmonellosis): A bacterial disease associated with various animals including dogs.
- Tapeworm (flea tapeworm): See Dipylidium Infection.
- Toxocara Infection (toxocariasis, roundworm): A parasitic disease associated with dogs and cats and their environment.
A serious injury can be detrimental to your health and your lifestyle. It can also affect relationships with loved ones. If you have suffered from a serious dog bite injury resulting from the negligence of another, you may be entitled to compensation. For a free review of your claim, please completely fill out the form below and submit your case to a Boston personal injury lawyer. A personal injury lawyer will review your form pursuant to the site terms and conditions.
www.cdc.gov/healthypets/animals/dogs.htm
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