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Have pets usually can help reduce stress and make the owner more healthy. But there are some animals that just makes you sick. Anything?
Not all animals can be kept and some of it potentially transmit dangerous diseases.
Here are a few animals that can make people sick, as reported by ABC News:
1. Monkey
Monkeys can carry the Herpes B virus that can be transmitted through saliva and can be potentially lethal. "Herpes B can cause encephalitis, which is swelling of the brain. The virus is present in saliva and can enter into the human brain," said Dr. William Schaffner, professor and chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn.
2. Bats
Although humans rarely see bats, but these nocturnal animals can also cause serious illness. "Bats can transmit rabies to humans. That's pretty high on the list of serious disease spread through contact with animals," says Schaffner.
The rabies virus is often spread through contact with infected animals such as coyotes, foxes, raccoons, sometimes dogs and cats.
Rabies affects the central nervous system and can cause confusion, hallucinations, partial paralysis and difficulty swallowing. If left untreated, is usually fatal within a few days after these symptoms appear.
3. Wild rabbits
While the wild rabbit may seem sweet and funny to be maintained, this carrot-eating animals can spread tularemia, is a disease which can cause serious respiratory problems. Tularemia, also known as rabbit fever.
Symptoms such as sudden fever, chills, joint pain and progressive weakness. An infected person can also develop pneumonia and chest pain and difficulty breathing.
4. Birds
Birds can transmit a number of diseases. Among them are avian influenza, a disease that received international attention back in the 1990s. Bird flu caused by the H5N1 virus, which can be spread through the handling of infected poultry. Since 1997, more than 120 million birds worldwide have died from the flu or after being destroyed to prevent the spread of the disease. H5N1 is particularly deadly in humans.
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Other diseases that are spread by birds are the parrot fever or psittacosis. Parrot fever can be spread when you breathe in dried feces of infected aerosols from infected birds. Symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, and in some cases it can cause pneumonia.
5. Mice
Many historians believe that the rat is the cause of the Black Death and also known to carry other harmful microorganisms. Among them is the rat-bite fever, a disease that can be caused by two different bacteria. Humans can be infected with this disease can consume contaminated food or drink or through a rat bite. Symptoms vary depending on the type of the disease.
Rats can also spread leptospirosis, a bacterial disease that can lead to serious kidney damage and meningitis. Mice can transmit salmonella and giardia, which can cause gastrointestinal illness.
6. Reptiles
Reptiles such as turtles naturally dangerous because these animals carry salmonella on their skin. Children are very susceptible to salmonella infection caused by the reptile. The CDC estimates that about 74,000 people suffer from related diseases related salmonella from reptiles.
7. Cattle
Cows can spread the three major diseases, which are associated with salmonella infection, E. coli infections and encephalitis cows. Encephalitis cow or Mad Cow Disease (BSE) causes the degenerative brain disease in cattle. It can spread to humans consume part of the brain or spinal cord of cattle infected. This can cause Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, a degenerative disease of the brain and deadly in humans.
8. Dogs
Man's best friend can also be the worst enemy when spreading the disease. Besides sometimes spreading rabies, dogs can transmit parasites such as hookworm and roundworm.
Dogs also can be another port of disease-causing organisms.
Dog fleas can also carry the bacteria that cause Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which can be fatal if untreated.
9. Cat
Even though it looks cute and adorable, cats can also spread the disease in humans. 50 to 90 percent of cat bites can get you infected. On rare occasions, cat bites can cause bone infection or encephalitis.
Cats also can spread rabies and tularemia and toxoplasmosis. The bacteria that cause tularemia and the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis is usually carried by other animals, but cats are outdoors or in contact with other animals can spread the disease to humans.
People who suffer from toxoplasmosis is usually due to contact with contaminated cat feces or eating contaminated food or water. Toxoplasmosis can cause severe damage to the brain, eyes or other organs.
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