Leptospirosis
“Leptospirosis is a bacteria that is shed in the urine of infected animals. Our pets can contract this infection from ground water that is contaminated by infected wildlife. Though this infection does require contact with infected urine, it’s much easier than you may think to inadvertently come in contact with your pet’s urine,” says Johanna Reel, NHV Natural Pet’s in-house registered veterinary technician.
Signs and symptoms can be mild, such as headaches, muscle pains and fevers, and severe, such as bleeding in the lungs (also known as severe pulmonary hemorrhage syndrome) or meningitis. Rodents are the most common animals that spread this virus. Nevertheless, in the case of animals, some of them show no symptoms at all.
Also, this disease occurs frequently in low-income households, because people use low quality water that is infected with Leptospirosis. So, all you have to do is to vaccinate your beloved furry friend and avoid swimming in poor water that could be contaminated with animal urine.
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I was born with toxoplasmosis. My mom was pregnant with me and the disease (parasite) feeds on the retina of the eye and the brain.. I was lucky in that the parasite ate the retina in the right eye causing blindness and started on the left eye, (stopped) causing no damage but scars were there showing it started in the left eys. It stays dormate in the body and can reactive any time; that has occurred twice in my lifetime and doctors have been able to use a laser beam and kill the reacted cells. This disease can be carried onto my child but I have chosen to not have children to avoid this terrible disease. As stated it stays dormate in your body forever and they are now discovering that it causes cysts to grow on your vital organs such as lungs, kidneys. liver. etc. I have already found cysts on my kidneys so your certainly do not want to have this disease. It is a lifelong disease. I do not have cats and never wanted them.