How does Fecal Pathogen Pollution (FPP) affect human and animal health?
Humans Fecal Pathogen Pollution has many negative results on both humans and animals. Humans can get sick from water or food that is contaminated with feces that we normally can’t see; direct animal-human contact is another route of pathogen transmission. There is a range of sicknesses people get, three that we study are: Cryptosporidiosis, Giardiasis, and Toxoplasmosis. For further information, look at the fact sheets and pamphlets. Animals Animals also get a range of sicknesses caused by fecal pathogens. Many don’t have a clean habitat, or home anymore due to the pollution in their environments. Fecal pathogens can cause diarrheal disease, or brain disease, for example in the sea otters that live on the coast of California, brain disease caused by protozoa are a major cause for death. For more information, go to: www.seaotterresearch.org/braindisease.shtml.
