print email comment close CDC: Pocket Pets URL: http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/animals/pocket_pets.htm Description: Health advisories about pocket pets, "small animals, often rodents that are kept as pets and could fit in your pocket." Discusses Salmonella and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), both of which can be transmitted from animals to humans. Includes prevention measures and considerations when choosing a pocket pet. From the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Publisher: National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Extra Keywords mice rats gerbils hamsters guinea pigs ferrets sugar gliders Library of Congress Subject Headings: Animals as carriers of disease Pets LII Database Information: Record 20906 created by Jennifer English on 03/13/2006 Last modification on 03/15/2006 Published: 03/16/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20906