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Marek's disease and humans
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Tritrichomonas foetus is a bad disease in cattle, causing abortions. It's not as rare as it appears in cats, especially purebred cats from catteries, or multicat environments. In cats it's hard to detect, and usually needs a PCR test sent to a veterinary lab for diagnosis. Then it takes meds from a compounding pharmacy to treat, because no common meds manage it. Just went through this with a Bengal kitten bought by a relative, so this is recent experience.
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What bothers me is that these two mentioned here in this thread are considered STDs in humans.
I have avoided STDs all my life.
If there is a chance IF one of my birds ever gets either of these that I could get it from them I want to know. I highly doubt it will happen but...
I am also having a hard time understanding why there isn't more info out there about this.
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Yes, plasma is just serum without the clotting agents. What I am more concerned about is how these samples were taken and how they were analyzed; it is important to understand the difference in a study’s scientific methods and the relative accuracy when taking these journals at face value.
WHY was there traces found in human serum but not in human plasma..? Someone did something different, is why.
Lazy Gardener said everything I was thinking with regards to potentially skewed data and the fact that traces of every disease could be found in potentially every body, lying dormant until it dies or it’s preferred host comes along.
WHY was there traces found in human serum but not in human plasma..? Someone did something different, is why.
Lazy Gardener said everything I was thinking with regards to potentially skewed data and the fact that traces of every disease could be found in potentially every body, lying dormant until it dies or it’s preferred host comes along.
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I still don't quite understand all of this.
I just grew up thinking that STDs are horrible and one should avoid them at all cost.
I just grew up thinking that STDs are horrible and one should avoid them at all cost.
Again, from my very recent research, T. foetus isn't considered an issue in humans. Not that any animal ever kisses my lips, but still...
I don't know about any of the others mentioned.
Mary
PS Anyone immunocompromised is fair game for everything, IMO. That's where real problems can occur here too.
I don't know about any of the others mentioned.
Mary
PS Anyone immunocompromised is fair game for everything, IMO. That's where real problems can occur here too.
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The solid lines here show known transmissions between certain animals.
Well, yes, there's that! OF course STD's should be totally avoided. And if our society went to total monogamy within marriage, we would find that for the most part, STD's become an extreme rarity. But, that's a hornets nest that just might offend a few people!
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You didn’t believe me?
Trichonomas in cows is more of a financial issue than it is a “life altering” issue like a human STD would be. I found a couple credible sources that said it was not zoonotic. Birds don’t get the STD form, they get a respiratory illness from Trichonomas.
There’s not a lot on it because it doesn’t happen; if people were getting sick with Marek’s or cow STDs we would have heard about it.
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