Mother-to-child transmission
If the female cat is infected with parasites, some species of parasites can infect the fetus through the placenta, such as roundworm and hookworm larvae. Kittens can also get parasites, such as Toxoplasma, from their mother’s milk.
Dietary infection
The disease enters the mouth, when the cat eats or drinks, swallows the infected eggs or larvae, or eats the host with parasites, such as cockroaches, fleas , mice, sparrows.
Even cats who do not go out at all may carry parasites by eating cat food containing parasite eggs. Pet food is only feed, not food.
We sometimes wonder, the environment at home is so clean and hygienic, the drinking water for cats is pure water or cold boiled water, and cats are still infected with parasites.
Skin Infections
Some infectious parasite larvae can penetrate directly into a cat’s skin and burrow into it. Inside the body, move to parasitic sites, such as hookworm larvae.
Hookworms love soil and may crawl into grass in search of a host. Penetrates the skin through the cat’s footpads
, causing cutaneous larva migrans.
Intermediate host transmission
Parasites can also be transmitted through intermediate hosts. For example, mosquitoes can transmit heartworm larvae. The intermediate hosts of heartworm are Anopheles sinensis, albopictus Aedes, Culex pipiens pallens and other mosquitoes.
Cats are infected by the bite of mosquitoes containing infectious larvae. The adult heartworm parasites the right heart and pulmonary artery in dogs, cats and humans.
The adult worms produce larvae , circulating in the blood, mosquitoes will carry heartworm larvae after biting dogs and cats infected with heartworm.
Fleas are often the hosts of tapeworms. If cats are parasitized by fleas, the possibility of cats being infected with tapeworms is also very high.
Contact infection
Healthy cats come into direct contact with parasite-infected cats, and the parasites are transmitted by sick cats. Spread to healthy cats, such as mites, lice, fleas, etc.
Indirect contact infection
Parasites can live in the external environment for a period of time, such as mites and fleas on cats, which can survive for a long time in the daily necessities they have used .
If these items are not sterilized and used directly by healthy cats, parasites will spread to healthy cats.
Cats raised indoors are also susceptible to parasites. You’d better know the signs or characteristics of cats infected with parasites, so that you can deal with them in time.
It should be noted that in vitro Parasites may be the host of endoparasites, and infection with ectoparasites may be a sign of infection with endoparasites. Deworming should consider synergistic treatment of endoparasites simultaneously.
