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For Health Professionals Health professionals, including physicians, veterinarians, nurses, community health workers, and veterinary technicians, are highly valued sources of health information, including information on zoonoses, for the general public. This section is intended to help you, as a health professional, provide information to your patients and clients on prevention of diseases related to animal contact.
Prevention
Tools: CDC's Pet-Scription Attention
health professionals! The public often seeks disease prevention information
from physicians, nurses, community health workers, veterinarians, and
veterinary technicians. As a health professional, you can provide the
most updated information on prevention of pet-related zooonses to your
patients and clients (including those who are immunocompromised). Health
professionals working in the fields of obstetrics, pediatrics, oncology,
infectious diseases, and veterinary medicine may have a particular interest
in these materials, since their patients and clients are at greatest
risk of acquiring severe illnesses from contact with animals. It is easy to inform your patients about pets and zoonoses! Health professionals can use this general pet-scripition to inform patients and clients, especially those who are immunocompromised, how to prevent diseases related to animal contact.
Publications and Presentations Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control, 2004. National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, Inc. (NASPHV). - Includes rabies vaccination schedule for pets. Importation of Pets, Other Animals or Animal Products into the United States Kassenborg HD, Hedberg CW, Hoekstra M, Evans MC, Chin AE, Marcus R, Vugia DJ, Smith K, Ahuja SD, Slutsker L, and Griffin PM. PDF 170KB Farm Visits and Undercooked Hamburgers as Major Risk Factors for Sporadic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infection: Data from a Case-Control Study in 5 FoodNet Sites Clinical Infectious Diseases Supplement 2004:38 pg 271-278 Roy SL, Delong SM, Stenzel SA, Shiferaw B, Roberts JM, Khalakdina A, Marcus R, Segler SD, Shah DD, Thomas S, Vugia DJ, Zansky SM, Dietz V, Beach MJ, and the Emerging Infections Program FoodNet Working Group. Risk Factors for Sporadic Cryptosporidiosis among Immunocompetent Persons in the United States from 1999 to 2001 PDF 464KB Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 2004, p. 2944-2951, Vol. 42, No. 7 Skerget M, Wenisch C, Daxboeck F, Krause R, Haberl R and Stuenzner D. Cat or Dog Ownership and Seroprevalence of Ehrlichiosis, Q Fever, and Cat Scratch Disease. Emerg Infect Dis 2003 Oct.
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