domestic carnivore

Sparrows, which are common in urban and rural areas, may serve as a food source for wild and domestic carnivores.

The species of Diphyllobothrium in domestic carnivores have a lifecycle involving fish as the intermediate host.

The life cycles of other parasites can be currently assumed to be similar to those in the domestic carnivores (table 2).

Several other metastrongyloid genera occur in the domestic carnivores, but they are limited in distribution.

This genus occurs in domestic carnivores, and though common, is of less significance than Toxocara because its parasitic phase is non-migratory.

They may be conveniently divided into three groups according to host; those occurring in pigs, in sheep and goats, and in the domestic carnivores.

Since ascarid infections in the domestic carnivores invarably include Toxocara, the measures recommended for control of the latter will also have an effect on Toxascaris.

The centre of gravity of this proposal is of course the rabies risk linked to movements of cats and dogs, the two major domestic carnivore species involved in the transmission of this fatal disease.

On this essential issue, the proposal is based on the recommendations of the International Zoo Sanitary Code, on reports of the Scientific Veterinary Committee and on the conclusions on panels of international experts consulted on the assessment of the rabies risk linked to movements of domestic carnivores.