We often hear from various channels: cats have 9 lives. There are many stories and legends about cats having nine lives around the world, which are attributed to their ability to jump and land and their ability to climb and jump. I believe that everyone also wants to understand how cats can infect parasites to humans? This question will be explained to you next.
How can cats infect parasites to humans?
Cats are mainly Toxoplasma gondii, and cats are also the host of insect-keeping for a variety of parasites, such as ginger-sliced flukesomiae. These orally infected parasites become foodborne parasites. Toxoplasma gondii is very harmful to the human body. Pregnant women should not raise cats, dogs, etc. as pets. Toxoplasma gondii can cause congenital toxoplasma gondii disease in babies and baby deformities, such as exposure to intestinal tracts. According to studies, congenital toxoplasmosis can cause symptoms or deformities in babies at birth to 12%, while 80% of them have mental developmental disorders and 50% have visual disorders. Hydrocephalus, cerebral calcification, retinal choroiditis, and mental and motor disorders are typical symptoms of congenital toxoplasmosis. In addition, it may be accompanied by systemic manifestations, including fever, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, anemia, myocarditis, epilepsy, etc. in the neonatal period. Fusion pneumonia is a common cause of death.
The transmission route is as follows:
Path 1: Cats can also be infected by oral infection and can also be transmitted to people. Cats swallow infectious eggs or larvae when eating or drinking water, or eat larvae-carried larvae to people, such as cockroaches.
Path 2: There are also parasites in the mother of cats that can also be transmitted to humans, and larvae can infect human fetuses through the placenta, such as roundworms and hookworms. It is also possible to transmit milk to breastfeeding cats, such as syrupidia.
Path 3: Cats can also be transmitted to people through skin infection. Infectious larvae directly penetrate the cat's skin, penetrate into the human body, and move to the parasitic site to parasitic sites, such as hookworm larvae.
Path 4: Cats can also be transmitted to their owners through intermediate hosts, such as mosquitoes that can spread heartworm larvae.
Route 5: Another type is that contact infection can also be transmitted to people. If healthy cats come into direct contact with sick cats, parasites will be transmitted from sick cats to people, such as mites, lice, fleas, etc.
Route 6: Cats will be exposed to infection and will also be transmitted to people, because parasites can live in the external environment for a period of time. For example, mites on sick cats can survive in the daily necessities they have used for more than ten days. If these items are not disinfected and are directly used by healthy cats, parasites will spread to healthy cats. The owner has touched the sick cat's hands and touched the healthy cat directly without disinfecting it, which may also spread parasites.