SAN FRANCISCO — Petting a therapy dog can help reduce stress and anxiety in kids who have cancer, but a visit from one of these furry friends can also spread dangerous germs to these vulnerable ...

Transfer of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the community is an important matter of public health concern. Several studies have identified dogs kept by people as pets as carriers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found that a low-cost cleaning procedure could prevent therapy dogs from spreading MRSA among ...

From the research team at the University of Guelph Ontario Veterinary College — who have probably done more than any other group to elucidate MRSA in companion animals — comes a look at MRSA ...

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Therapy dogs help ease stress in young patients with cancer, but can spread methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), putting vulnerable kids at risk for a serious infection. Cleaning the ...

MRSA infections that are transmitted between dogs/cats and their human handlers, and vice-versa, are increasing—with infections of the skin, soft-tissue, and surgical infections the most common. This ...

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10, 2018 -- While therapy dogs can help ease anxiety for kids with cancer, they may also carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can put patients at risk for serious infections.

As if all the angst about drug-resistant staph bacteria wasn’t worrisome enough, now it turns out you might get the deadly germ from your cat. Suspicions about that calico on the couch are being ...

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Therapy dogs may serve as a mechanical vector for hospital-associated infections, according to research from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine presented at ID Week 2018 in San Francisco. For the ...