print email comment close Healthy Pets Healthy People URL: http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/ Description: Pets are wonderful companions, but they can pass diseases to people. This site tells how to safely enjoy pets. It has information about people at risk (pregnant women, people with compromised immune systems), guidelines for animals in institutional settings, and a glossary. Additional resources include articles, brochures, posters, information hotlines, and links to other Web sites. Browsable by animal or disease. From the National Center for Infectious Diseases. Author: Center for Disease Control and Prevention Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Infectious Diseases Extra Keywords grpets zoonoses Library of Congress Subject Headings: Animals as carriers of disease Communicable diseases -- Prevention Pets -- Health Zoonoses LII Database Information: Record 8214 created by Barbara Bibel on 11/07/2002 Last modification on 05/04/2005 Published: 11/07/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8214