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..Kucing bawa jangkitan Meningitis (aku baru je cakap 3 minggu lepas)
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Infection risk posed by cats revealed By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online
Experts say more research is needed into a disease spread by cats after figures show an estimated 350,000 people a year in the UK become infected with toxoplasmosis. Although only a minority of people - between one and two in every 10 - has symptoms, advisers say extra measures to control the disease may be needed.
The disease is spread by direct contact with cats or eating contaminated food.
The Food Standards Agency has released an official report.
Cat owners are assured that the risks can be managed with good basic hygiene and common sense.
British Veterinary Association past president and veterinary surgeon Harvey Locke said: "The biggest threat is to pregnant women and those who are immuno-compromised, which we have known for some time. It is useful to reiterate that they should take extra care but there is no need for people to get rid of their pet cats or choose not to have cats as pets."
The report says there is a lack of data on the condition, making it difficult to estimate the real burden of the disease.
And it says the current consumer advice should be reviewed.
FSA chief scientist Andrew Wadge said: "This thorough and detailed report points out key gaps in our knowledge about this parasite and suggests areas where more research is needed which will help us in estimating how much infection is due to food and which foods might be the highest risk.
"The report also suggests we look again at our advice to vulnerable groups and ensure that it reflects current scientific knowledge."
In about 80% of cases, a person who is infected will not be aware and will have no symptoms.
Others will develop mild flu-like symptoms, but will not need treatment.
But toxoplasmosis - the disease in humans - can cause serious complications in people with weakened immune systems, such as those with HIV and cancer.
And in pregnant women it can result in the baby being born blind or with brain damage. Three babies in every 100,000 are born with the condition in the UK.
Toxoplasmosis is a notifiable disease in Scotland but is neither a notifiable nor reportable disease in the rest of the UK.
Gloves advice The culprit parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can get into the food chain via cats faeces causing contamination of soil, water and plants.
Humans may catch the infection from eating undercooked meat from animals harbouring toxoplasma or from contact with cat litter or contaminated soil.
Once infected, a person is immune from further infection for life.
The best way to avoid infection is to make sure you wear gloves when gardening or changing your cat's litter tray, wash fruit and vegetables before eating and cook meat thoroughly - although it is possible to still enjoy it rare, says the Food Standards Agency.
Pregnant women should also avoid contact with sheep and newborn lambs during the lambing season because there is a small risk that an infected sheep or lamb could pass the infection on at this time.
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TB may be spreading from cat to cat Cat to cat transmission of TB among family pets in the Home Counties cannot be ruled out, according to officials
By Alice Philipson
12:12PM GMT 28 Mar 2014
Family cats may be spreading tuberculosis to one another, officials have said.
An outbreak among pets in the Home Counties has seen at least nine cats become infected with TB in a matter of weeks.
While it is thought the most likely cause of the disease is pets fighting with infected badgers, officials have said they cannot rule out that the bacteria has been spread from cat to cat.
Six of the infected cats were found to be living within 250 yards of one another on an estate near Greenham Common, in Berkshire.
Professor Noel Smith, Head of the Bovine TB Genotyping Group at Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratory Agency, said: "The most likely source of infection is infected wildlife, but cat-to-cat transmission cannot be ruled out."
There are also warnings that tuberculosis may have spread beyond the two people known to have contracted the disease, according to Public Health England.
Dr Dilys Morgan, head of gastrointestinal, emerging and zoonotic diseases department at PHE, said other people could have been affected but said it was a "personal choice" as to whether potential victims took up screening.
"It may be it's spread further. We have screened all close contacts related to this incident and we have offered screening to all close contacts in this incident," she told BBC Radio 4's Today.
Asked about reports that some had turned it down, she said: "That's a personal choice.
"We have assessed the contacts, we have offered them screening, we have offered them chemoprophylaxis - so preventing the disease if they are positive."
She said it was important to "get this into perspective" when considering wider risks.
"These are the first documented cases anywhere in the world so what we have done, we have raised our risk from 'negligible' - that is no public health actions - to 'very low'.
"It remains very low but we feel the risk warrants an assessment of the contacts of cats diagnosed with TB and an assessment of whether they need screening or not.
"That is the big change here."
Two people in England have developed tuberculosis (TB) after contact with pet cats in the first ever recorded cases of cat-to-human transmission, officials confirmed.
The two human cases are linked to nine cases of the Mycobacterium bovis infection in cats in Berkshire and Hampshire last year, according to PHE.
Both people were responding to treatment.
Veterinarians believe domestic cats could be catching the disease by venturing into badger setts or from rodents that have been in badger setts.
Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore, a researcher in feline medicine who has been studying the presence of TB in cats, warned that people had become complacent about watching for the warning signs of the disease because there have been relatively few cases in recent years.
“We’ve all become rather complacent because we haven’t been seeing TB for so many years but bovis is back with a little bit more significance,” she said.
“It’s important we don’t get blinkered and think it’s only badgers and cattle that get infected. This is a bacteria that is not very fussy about who it infects.”
She said she had dealt with cases in which dogs had also passed on Mycobacterium bovis to humans.
Nine cases of Mycobacterium bovis infection in domestic cats in Berkshire and Hampshire were investigated by the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) and PHE last year.
PHE said it had offered TB screening to 39 people identified as having had contact with the nine infected cats.
Of these, 24 people accepted screening. Two were found to have active TB and there were two cases of latent TB, which means they had been exposed to TB at some point but did not have an active infection.
Both people with active TB disease have confirmed infection with Mycobacterium bovis.
PHE said there have been no further cases of TB in cats reported in Berkshire or Hampshire since March 2013.
Analysis of the samples of active TB from the humans and the infected cats by the AHVLA showed the Mycobacterium bovis was "indistinguishable".
This "indicates transmission of the bacterium from an infected cat", PHE said.
In the cases of latent TB infection, it was not possible to confirm if they were caused by Mycobacterium bovis.
Dr Dilys Morgan, head of gastrointestinal, emerging and zoonotic diseases department at PHE, said: "It's important to remember that this was a very unusual cluster of TB in domestic cats.
'M. Bovis is still uncommon in cats – it mainly affects livestock animals.
"These are the first documented cases of cat-to-human transmission and so, although PHE has assessed the risk of people catching this infection from infected cats as being very low, we are recommending that household and close contacts of cats with confirmed M. Bovis infection should be assessed and receive public health advice."
Figures show that TB caused by Mycobacterium bovis is diagnosed in fewer than 40 people in the UK each year.
The majority of cases are in the over-65s, most likely due to a latent infection acquired years earlier becoming active again.
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member aku koma sebulan sebab meningitis ni  bangun2 je terus tak ingat siapa2. memang meningitis ni bole buat org lupa ke? |
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Owh ok.. umah ai ada 12 ekor kucing.. so ai nak tambah genapkan 50 ekor.. anak2 ai membesar pon dgn kucing2 yg ai bela kat rumah.. dari org kata masa peknen pon bahaya bela kucing.. ai tetap bela.. pada ai.. ajal maut ditangan Tuhan.. kalo dah penyebabnya kucing ai redha je. Noktah! |
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kejam tak manusia bangsat nie 
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
-- Ghandi
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Mmg syg bintg.. Tp kena tahu bintg tetap binatang... Dia mn boleh kena kotor ker apa..dia redah jer.. Ank tu jgnlh dibiar share mende dgn kucing.. Klu dah tahu rumh bela bintg..botol susu ke apa ktlh ank letak sekjap g main..sblum ank minum balik tu basuh dulu... |
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pakweneelofa posted on 19-4-2014 01:27 AM 
aku benci kucing...
kau doraemon memang kucing pun |
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hanakikan posted on 19-4-2014 02:46 AM
member aku koma sebulan sebab meningitis ni bangun2 je terus tak ingat siapa2. memang meningitis ...
meningitis kan affect otak sis |
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mommymonster82 posted on 19-4-2014 03:52 AM
Mmg syg bintg.. Tp kena tahu bintg tetap binatang... Dia mn boleh kena kotor ker apa..dia redah jer. ...
kucing minum botol susu ke cikgu?  |
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kakikuDibibirmu posted on 19-4-2014 04:08 AM
kucing minum botol susu ke cikgu?
Kalu ikut baca kt situ bukan dia kata kucing tu suka jilat botol susu anak dia? Ke me yg salah faham?
Kucing kan suka susu.dia xdela nynyot mcm budak nyonyot..hihihi.dia suka jilat2 n gigit kt puting botol susu budak tu...so klu botol susu budak ni dia mmg akn suka..budak ni kdg2 dia minum sampi tertdo.. So botol tu merata ler peginya..bila terlepas dr tgn..kucing mari jilat2.... Hihihi... |
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bahasa tamil ke ni? aku tak faham la... not educated. hahah
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kakikuDibibirmu posted on 19-4-2014 04:07 AM
meningitis kan affect otak sis
Effect selaput otak kan bukan otak. |
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kan ank2 di Msia diberi suntikan utk elakkan meningitis ni.. |
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hanakikan posted on 19-4-2014 04:19 AM
Effect selaput otak kan bukan otak.
benda tu membengkak, ada lah kot dia affect |
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mommymonster82 posted on 19-4-2014 04:13 AM
Kalu ikut baca kt situ bukan dia kata kucing tu suka jilat botol susu anak dia? Ke me yg salah fah ...
oh, kucing tu jilat jilat rupanya, patutlah |
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kalau takut kucing bawa bugs, mandikan atau spray supercat je blh saja hilang, takyah takut bagai hehe |
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bapak kawan aku kena meningitis koma sebulan
sebab dia makan kedai mamak
kalau ikut logik pyro, jom kita bunuh semua mamak  |
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apa apa hal kencing tikus lg bahaya
aku baru aja kena kencing dgn tikus
aku isytiharkan perang terhadap tikus
dah bnyak rat glue aku dah set up di tempat kerja ni |
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Cicak pun bahaya juga wei... banyak binatang perosak yang jengah kejap je di rumah bawak penyakit..
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Post time 19-4-2014 02:46 AM
