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BEsT MANAGEMENT PRACTICEs HANDbooK - Tahoe BMP

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Some diseases associated with pet waste include:Campylobacteriosis – a bacterial infection that causes diarrhea in humans.Salmonellosis – most common bacterial infection that causes fevers, muscle aches,headaches, vomiting, and diarrhea.Toxocariasis – roundworms transmitted from animals to humans. Symptoms often withoutnoticeable symptoms, but may cause vision loss, rashes, fevers, and coughs.Toxoplasmosis – A protozoan parasite that can cause birth defects such as mentalretardation and blindness if a woman becomes infected during pregnancy.Ear infections, dysentery, typhoid fever, viral and bacterial gastroenteritis, and Hepatitis Aare all diseases associated with animal waste bacteria coli forms being present in water.Coli forms tend to affect humans more than it does aquatic creatures, though notexclusively. One study found that a single gram of dog feces contains 23 million fecal coli14, 15form bacteria.14The Stormwater Manager’s Resource Center, Pollution Prevention Fact Sheet: Animal WasteCollection http://www.stormwatercenter.net/Pollution_Prevention_Factsheets/AnimalWasteCollection.htm15NC State University Biological and Agricultural Engineering, 2005, Phase II Home - Pet Wastehttp://www.bae.ncsu.edu/topic/phase2/meas1petwaste.htmTRPA <strong>BMP</strong> HandbookChapter 4: <strong>BMP</strong> Toolkit2012 4.2.4.4-Pet Waste ManagementPage 3

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