Compassion is the Key
Compassionate Crusaders Trust (CCT), an organization that works for animal welfare in the city, hosted a team of four students from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine. They worked for a couple of months [misreported: we worked for two days] on a project at CCT’s animal clinic to study on diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans. The team collected fecal samples of dogs from CCT’s animal shelter and from parts of Kolkata. The findings on the type of parasite eggs and proglottids will be documented. Finally, the data collected will be used to determine the prevalence of internal parasites in domestic animals in the city in order to assess zoonotic risk and potential impact of these parasites on animal as well as human health.
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