YOGYAKARTA - Humans live side by side with various types of animals, both pets and wildlife that we often encounter. However, not many realize that there are animals that spread disease to humans that can threaten health.
These diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans are known as zoonosis, and the spread can occur through bite, scratch, to feces contamination.
So it is important for us to recognize these animals and understand how to protect ourselves and our families from the risk of transmission.
Some animals can actually be carriers of serious diseases that threaten human health. Reporting from the Live Science page, let's get to know more about some of them:
Your pet cat is adorable. But, be alert if they bite or scratch! Cat bite or scratch can cause Cat Symptom Disease, caused by the Bartonella henselae bacteria. Most infected people do not show symptoms and recover without treatment.
Transmission of these bacteria between cats generally through ticks. Kites are more susceptible to carrying these bacteria than adult cats, and they are also more likely to pass them on to humans.
The symptoms vary, ranging from swollen lymph nodes, fever, headache, loss of appetite, to pustula near wounds. Blood tests can diagnose this disease, and antibiotics can help even if they usually heal on their own.
Bird flu occurs if you are infected with the type A aviation influenza virus. This virus is common among birds and other animals, but usually does not spread to humans.
Infected birds can spread the virus through their saliva, mucus, and droppings. In other animals, viruses can be found in organs, blood, or body fluids, including milk.
Humans can catch bird flu if the virus enters the eyes, nose, or mouth, or by inhaling it. Touching something contaminated with the virus and sweeping the eye can also be a transmission route.
Rabies takes time to reach the brain, where symptoms such as fever or headache appear, which then develops into delirium, hallucinations, and abnormal behavior.
The disease is almost always fatal once symptoms appear, although it can be prevented if animals are vaccinated.
Also read the article that discusses What Animals Can Get Rabies? Check The List Here
Ebola virus is thought to have spread to humans through close contact with blood, body fluids, or primate organs such as monkeys, fruit bats, forestenvelopes, and infected hedgehogs.
Early symptoms of infection in humans include sudden fever, weakness, sore throat, headache, and vomiting. Furthermore, there can be kidney and liver function disorders, accompanied by internal and external bleeding.
About half of everyone who contracted Ebola died, but early care could reduce the risk of death.
Also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, this disease attacks cows and causes progressive neurological problems in animals.
BSE is caused by a prion, which is an abnormal protein form that can cause the nearby normal protein to misfold and malfunction. Cows can develop this disease if given feed that contains tissue from infected cows, or less rarely, can spontaneously develop.
The form of disease in humans is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) disease. Humans can be infected by eating food products made from infected cows.
This mad cow disease in humans causes rapid dementia and rapidly deteriorating neuromuscular disorder.
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