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Daily Fit Tip: How to keep your pet from making you sick

Posted: Mar 7th 2008 6:00AM by Rigel Gregg
Filed under: General Health, Daily Fit Tip, Healthy Events

The majority of Americans have, or have had, a pet as part of their family. Studies have shown that having pets can be really good for your health (lowering heart rate and reducing blood pressure and cholesterol) but pets, like all animals, can also carry disease. If you don't take the right precautions you and your family could end up getting really sick. The very old, the very young, pregnant women, and anybody with a compromised immune system are at the most risk, but anybody could catch any number of nasty things. Here are a few pointers for avoiding pet-related illnesses:

Gallery: How to keep your pet from making you sick

Keep your pet up to date on vaccinations

Never feed raw or undercooked meat to pets

Don't take in sick strays or wild animals

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