Wildlife Diseases and Humans

Authors

Robert G. McLean, Vertebrate Ecology Section, Medical Entomology and Ecology Branch, Division of Vector-borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado

Date of this Version

11-29-1994

Abstract

General Precautions

Directly transmitted diseases: rabies, hantavirus, trichinosis, mosquito-borne encephalitis

Tick-borne diseases: Colorado tick tever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (tick-borne typhus), Lyme disease, tularemia, relapsing fever

Personal protection

Flea-borne diseases: plague, murine, typhus, fever commensal rodent-borne diseases, rat-bite fever, leptospirosis (Weil’s disease), salmonellosis, rickettsialpox

Bird-borne diseases: histoplasmosis, ornithosis, salmonellosis