CDC Healthy Pets Healthy People — zoonotic diseases carried by pets (overview)

parasite_zoonosis_cdc_overview

The US CDC's Healthy Pets, Healthy People program covers zoonotic (zoe-oh-NOT-ic) diseases — the diseases people get from animals. Pets sometimes carry germs that can make people sick, so the program documents both the benefits and risks of pet ownership and how to keep pets and people healthy.

The CDC zoonotic-disease index for pets lists conditions including Salmonella, Campylobacter, Ringworm, Rabies, Toxoplasmosis, Cat Scratch disease, Leptospirosis, Giardia, and Lyme disease.

Pet-food relevance: zoonotic parasites and bacteria (e.g., Salmonella from contaminated pet food/raw diets, intestinal parasites) are a recurring pet-food safety concern. This overview sits alongside the surveillance layer — see parasite_zoonosis_cdc_salmonella_pets (CDC Salmonella from pets) and parasite_zoonosis_capc_2026_forecast (CAPC 2026 parasite forecasts).

Note: CDC live site was WAF-blocked at fetch time; content landed from the Wayback Machine official archive (first-hand CDC text, not a second-hand mirror).

Source: pdf-raw/parasite-zoonosis/cdc_healthypets_wayback_20240515.html (CDC via web.archive.org, landed 2026-08-09).

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Healthy Pets, Healthy People
zoonotic (zoe-oh-NOT-ic) diseases
germs that can make people sick
Salmonella
Ringworm
Cat Scratch

Sources

Healthy Pets, Healthy People — Diseases

Source document: CDC — Healthy Pets, Healthy People (zoonotic diseases index)

US CDC (NCEZID / DGMQ)CDC Healthy Petsretrieved 2026-08-09 (via web.archive.org snapshot 20240220/20240515)

Verification file: pdf-raw/parasite-zoonosis/cdc_healthypets_wayback_20240515.html

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