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Outdoor Health and Safety Tips

Hunters, campers, and hikers should be aware that they could be exposed to diseases passed by ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes. Rats or mice in cabins can also spread disease. The best way to avoid getting these diseases is to follow tips on protection.

• Anthrax
• Arboviral (Mosquito-borne) Diseases
• Brucellosis
• Chagas' Disease
• Encephalitis
• Envenomization (Snake and Spider Bites)
• Facts About Plague
• Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
• Hazards Associated with Wild Hogs (PDF)
• Lyme Disease (7-35) (PDF)
• Murine Typhus/Fleaborne Typhus (7-32) (PDF)
• Outdoor Health and Safety Tips (PDF)
• Plague
• Precautions for the Great Outdoors (PDF)
• Q-Fever
• Rabies
• Rabies and Wildlife Poster (7-25) (PDF)
• Raccoon Roundworm Prevention (PDF)
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• Safety: Keep safety in mind when working outdoors
• Ticks
• Tularemia
• West Nile Virus Fact Sheet for Campers (PDF)
• West Nile Virus
• Wild Side of Rabies, The (7-16) (PDF)
• Zoonoses (7-27) (PDF)
• Zoonotic disease precautions for hunters (American Veterinary Medical Association Publication)

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Texas Department of State Health Services - Infectious Disease Control Unit
1100 West 49th Street, Suite T801, Mail Code: 1960 PO BOX 149347 - Austin, TX 78714-9347
(512) 458-7676 - Fax: (512) 458-7616 - E-Mail

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