What are the Diseases you can get from skinning?

[Tami]

What are the Diseases you can get from skinning?

[Super Star!]

What are the Diseases you can get from skinning?

well it all depends... thats a pritty broad question............

[Tami]

ok

Does each animal have something?

Like foxes
raccoon
bear
yokes
and on and on

[kenhuntin]

racoons carry a parasite that can be fatal to humans. It can be transferred in the skinning process. I read it in the minnesota volunteer but the details elude me. If I remember correctly it is more harmful to children. They reccomended wearing gloves if you had to monkey with one.

[Super Star!]

well coons have red lookin flees
mange
distemper
rabies
worms Otters are full of them you can cut there ankle and watch them move..
just a few at the top of my head

[kenhuntin]

the stuff I was refering to in racoons is not a visible thing it is like a bacteria.

[Super Star!]

the stuff I was refering to in racoons is not a visible thing it is like a bacteria.

yeah coons are dirty little things.....

[Randy Kaar]

and mean bastards!

randy aka bh

[h2ofwlr]

Foxes and coyote have mange, and it can be tranmitted to dogs.

Muskrats can get cancer boils once in a while.

Foxes, coon, skunks can get distemper.  Not too sure about if transmittable to people though.

Deer and foxes and coon can have Lyme disease.  That is one nasty bug.  If you have a cut on you--a blod to blood transer can happen.  99% of time it is a deer tick that transfers it to humans, dogs, horses, cattle, and wild critters.

[GRIZ]

There are many things that can be transmitted. Each animal has it's own little set of bugs, viruses, bacterias that it could transmit.

Some of the things not mentioned yet are predators can carry a flea thats harmful. Not so much around here, I think it's more prevalent south and west. Which is a good thing as most predators I've gotten have fleas, just not the harmful kind.

Most mink around my area have lice.

Nobody mentioned rabies which is odd but it's one of the few viruses that can be transmitted via air. Yes you don't need to come in direct contact with an infected animal to get it but that is very rare.

Now that were on the subject Has anyone else been bitten by a lymes carrying tick? I have but luckily I caught it in time. Doc told me it was some bacteria in their saliva that caused the disease. It takes about a month for the bacteria to create the disease so he gave me some pills to kill the bacteria before the disease started. Otherwise it's too late

[Super Star!]

Griz i put rabies on my list........



also not every animal has a disease they are few and far between.. thanks to all the trapping and hunting of the animals. now take hunting and trapping away and you will see disease spread like wild fire.

a note on mange if you get it as a human i think its called scabies...