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Where do pets fit into human quarantines?

Author(s) -

C. Patrick Ryan

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdl035

Subject(s) - transmission (telecommunications) , zoonotic disease , environmental health , public health , disease , disease transmission , geography , medicine , virology , pathology , telecommunications , computer science

Currently, there are over 400 viral zoonoses in the world. In addition, there are numerous bacterial zoonoses. Of the emerging diseases, <75% are zoonoses. The potential for household transmission through pets is now being considered in any new disease when information is incomplete regarding potential hosts, and the risk for interspecies transmission is unknown. The possible role of household pets in disease transmission in community-based quarantines has previously been overlooked.

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