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Disease-Carrying Animals Animals can carry diseases that are harmful to people. Here is a list of animals and the diseases they may carry.
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| Bubonic plague | Painful swelling, high fever, body aches | Rat, flea | | Elephantiasis | Rough, thickened skin, body swelling | Worms | | Lyme disease | Rash, fatigue, muscle and joint pain | Deer tick | | Malaria | Chills, weakness, fever, excessive perspiration | Mosquito | | Plague typhus | Fever, skin rashes | Flea, lice, chipmunk, prairie dog, squirrel | | Rabies | Headaches, muscle spasms, convulsions | Woodchuck, bat, raccoons | | Rocky Mountain spotted fever | Chills, fever, rash, leg pain | Wood tick | | Sleeping sickness | Attacks nervous system; results in prolonged sleep | Tsetse fly | | Trichinosis | Vomiting, fever, pain, face swelling | Worms in pigs |
| Rift Valley fever | fever, muscle pain, joint pain, headache, blurred or loss of vision, memory loss, hallucinations, vertigo, lethargy, coma | contact with any infected animal's blood or organs, hematophagous (blood-feeding) flies, the Aedes mosquito |
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