A recent study has identified which strains of a common parasite carried by cats is killing sea otters along the coast of California
This finding raises the question: are these endangered marine mammals most vulnerable to infection by Type X, like sea otters, or are they succumbing to a different strain ofis only one of what is probably a vast army of pathogens that humans and our domestic animals are flooding into the environment.
What might be the health effects of these other, unidentified, pathogens on local wildlife -- and on people? No one knows.People can take control of the effects that they, their pets and livestock have on wildlife and on the environment. For example, the spread ofcan be minimized by keeping cats indoors at all times and bagging and disposing of their faeces in solid waste rather than dumping cat poops outdoors or flushing them down the toilet.
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