Do not hesitate to ask your supervisor for assistance. The difference is that our disease will kill them and their disease will kill us. It is transmitted through bites. The wound should be thoroughly cleaned with lots of water and a chlorine bleach solution of 1 to 10 dilution. As with any bite, immediately let your supervisor know and see your physician.
Tuberculosis is another disease shared by humans and monkeys.
Wear your protective clothing and face masks to prevent exposure to the disease in the air or on objects. The animals and you will be tested regularly for the disease. It is a disease found in rabbits, squirrels, muskrats, beavers, deer, cats, sheep, cattle, amphibians and fish. It can be transmitted by direct contact, bites, ticks, deer flies and mosquitoes. Breaks in the skin or getting the organism in the eye can lead to an infection.