Healthy Pets, Healthy People

Educational Materials

Stay Healthy around Pets

Adopt these healthy pet habits

Stay healthy around pet reptiles and amphibians!

How to check your pet for ticks

Stay safe and healthy while feeding reptiles and amphibians!

Stay healthy around small pets!

Pet food safety

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The trouble with tiny turtles

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Stay Healthy around Farm Animals

A healthy families and flocks

Stay healthy when working with farm animals

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Don’t play chicken with your health

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Know how to be safe around animals!

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Always wash your hands after handling live poultry

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5 things to do RIGHT after visiting animals

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Wash hands when leaving animal exhibits

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Stay healthy around animals

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Pet Disaster Preparedness

If a natural disaster strikes, what will happen to your pet? Be prepared: make a plan and prepare a disaster kit for your pet.

Pet Disaster Preparedness Kit

Pet Emergency Checklist Cdc-pdf[PDF – 2 pages]

Pet Boarding Instructions Cdc-pdf[PDF – 1 page]

Missing Pet Flyer Template Cdc-word[DOC – 643 KB]

CDC Experts Talk About Pets and Your Health

Facts and details to help people live happily with pets – while staying healthy.

CDC’s Dr. Megin Nichols talks about Salmonella and backyard flocks, live from a backyard coop. (Transcript)

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Healthy Herp Handling – Pet industry Joint Advisory CouncilExternal

Page last reviewed: December 13, 2018

Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)

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