Home cats causes diseases

Home cats causes diseases

There are many diseases transmitted from cats to humans, and these diseases are as follows: 

 1 fungal diseases herpes (ringworm), and it is estimated that about 40% of cats carry the disease and can move them to a human, the most famous of diseases that can be transmitted from cats to humans, and appears on the human skin in the form of rings red itchy gradually expanding.

2 conjunctivitis: 

 It is in the red-eye with secretions purulent, and easy to treat in cats and humans by the drop and ointments, and prevention is to wash your hands thoroughly after touching the cat when she became ill, and not allowing the cat to move in the house and climb up on the bed, and places of sitting during her illness. 

3 sore throat and tonsils 

 Some cats carry the microbe Streptococcus, which causes these infections, and be treated with antibiotics, and prevention is not to let the cat eating from food, drink or humans.

4 gastroenteritis: 

 Some cats carry Salmonella and Campylobacter microbes that may be transmitted to humans, causing diarrhea and vomiting, and prevention is to wear gloves when cleaning a cat and wash hands thoroughly after fondled, and keep the cat away from the places of food preparation

5 Cat bite: 

 More than 75% of cats carry in her mouth microbe Bastiorella which may cause some kind of fever, and some cats also carry the bacteria cluster, as well as tetanus can be transmitted by the bite of a cat, in addition of course to rabies, so advised to request emergency medical assistance as soon as possible after occurrence of the bite, especially if the cat was out of the house, or if the cat household and bite deep and severe, and that to treat the wound and the prevention of possible outcomes.

6 Cat scratch disease: 

   Borne disease kittens more than big cats, and the bacteria that causes it is called Bartonilla, and reach these bacteria to cat by fleas that infect cats, and when the cat carrying the microbe and then scratch the human infection transmitted to humans, the symptoms of the disease in humans is in the swollen lymph nodes and sometimes hotter

7 Helicobacter pylori bacteria :

 It is the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers and duodenum in humans, have been shown at the beginning of the nineties the possibility of transmission from cats to humans.
  The disease is transmitted through contaminated food secretions cats, so Prevention is in keeping cats away from places of food preparation and do not put them on the kitchen tables or dining tables, as well as washing hands carefully before preparing or eating particularly after touching cats.

8 Toxoplasma: 

 A single-celled organism infects cats by eating meat is not cooked well or eating meat from prey of infected, or exposure to places stand out other cats of infected the disease, such as parks or sand, and the cat of infected remains graduated eggs with faeces for two or three weeks after being infected and then become non-infectious and gaining immunity may remain with them for life, or at least for a very long time, do not get and do not infect anyone throughout this period, and the eggs produced by a cat that may infect humans or infect other cats, which are able to survive for a long time may be up to a year or more precisely, if existed in humid places shaded, has proven to be a cat of infected graduated about ten million eggs a day with feces.

9 Virus: 

 Including rabies, a fatal disease in most cases for each of the affects of a human being or an animal.

And deliverance from it is very rare, and infected animal disease as a result of being bitten or scratched by an infected animal, and then catch a human when it is exposed also bitten or scratched by an infected animal or when saliva contamination of the wounds of the human animal infected with the disease. After transmission of the virus up to the nervous system and affects strongly, then spoke convulsions and severe personal change and many other symptoms often end in death.

And cats, much less than the dogs, in the transfer of infection because they often be static if contracted the disease does not get the status of irritability and biting that infect dogs, and vaccination is available for both human and cats.