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A zoonotic disease can be passed from an animal to a person. Find out how to protect yourself and your family against these diseases and still be able to keep your pet.

The latest threat to Canada's beef industry, following mad-cow disease is potential hysteria over the recent outbreak of anthrax infection.

Thinking of giving someone a pet for Christmas? Most people don't consider their pets a health risk, but 75% of new human diseases can be traced to animals.

Most diseases that affect cats can't be transmitted to humans, but there are a few that people can contract from cats and other animals.

Infections that occur in animals and can be passed to humans are known as zoonotic diseases. Contact between humans and their pets results in millions of zoonotic infecti

Placed side by side, the visual differences between a rugby ball and a football are obvious .The rugby ball hasn't always had distinctive 'torpedo' design in use today.

Cat Scratch Fever is more likely to be caused by kittens than by older cats. Likewise younger people under 21 are more often affected than older people.

Two medical studies reveal how H1N1 influenza pandemic viruses are evolving, and how this evolution may affect the swine flu epidemic potential in the near future.

Scabies, or sarcoptic mange, is a parasitic disease which may affect both dogs and people and which causes extreme itchiness and hair loss resulting in a skin rash.

Animal hoarding is a mental illness which results in animal cruelty and abuse. Unfortunately, the hoarder is often unable to see the neglect being inflicted on their pets

Rabies is a fatal viral disease which infects dogs, cats and many other types of animals. Rabies is also contagious to people. Vaccination helps prevent rabies in pets.

A recent discovery by the US Centers for Disease Control reveals that household pets are susceptible to the swine flu. Can owners catch H1N1 from their infected pets?

Every year 76 million Americans become sick from food poisoning. Foodborne bacteria account for 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths on an annual basis.

Erhlichia is a disease spread by ticks. There are different types of Ehrlichia and the different types are spread by different types of ticks.

Scrapies is a degenerative, fatal disease that can affect sheep and goats and can even be passed to humans as Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease - a relative of Mad-Cow Disease.

Dogs and cats can be victims to several different intestinal parasites or worms, but roundworms, hookworms, whipworms and tapeworms are the most common.

According to CDC, more than 700 people annually are infected with Toxocara infection that can cause permanent vision loss. Prevention for people and pets is important.

Studies and ecological footprint statistics indicate that cats are more eco-friendly overall, but both cats and dogs have a significant impact on the environment.