By ANGELA OKETCHMore by this AuthorFeeding dogs and cats raw meat could pose a new danger of bacterial infection to humans. A study by researchers from the Netherlands revealed that feeding raw meat-based diets (RMBDs) such as meat, bones and organs to pets may be enhancing the spread of bacteria that often infect humans. They found that a dangerous bacteria known as Escherichia coli was present in several of the meats, eight products of the sample (23 per cent). The bacteria often cause diseases that range from urinary tract infections to life-threatening bloody diarrhoea in humans. DANGEROUS CHEMICALSA larger variety of the bacteria that produce dangerous chemicals was also found in 28 products (80 per cent).

Source: Daily Nation January 18, 2018 20:03 UTC