Across
- 3. Contact with infected feces,saliva, milk, or blood can spread disease, but actually most commonly affects humans through ingesting unpasteurized milk.
- 5. Spread by feces, or feces-contaminated soil, water, or other objects
- 8. Pets can be carriers of this bacteria without being symptomatic, and shed the bacteria in saliva and feces
- 9. Spread by ticks, specifically the brown dog tick
- 10. Most commonly shed by cats, and can infect humans if oocysts are ingested while cleaning litter boxes or in any area where infected feces may have been
Down
- 1. Spread by ticks, most common symptoms include nausea, lack of appetite, and stomach pain
- 2. Spread by contact with bodily fluids other than saliva, commonly urine
- 4. Direct transmission from pets to people has never been documented, but this disease caused by fungal spores can affect people if inhaled.
- 6. Spread by ticks, most common symptoms include headache, fatigue, joint aches, and swollen lymph nodes
- 7. Spread through contact of saliva or nervous system tissue with broken skin or mucus membranes