GREAT BARRINGTON -- Language barriers, cultural differences, and complicated health care forms are a few of the challenges keeping recent immigrants from getting adequate health care.ndocumented immigrants, who are are not eligible for Common wealth Care or MassHealth, typically rely on the safety net of community clinics and emergency-room services, Hernandez said. Since the beginning of the year, there's been a renewed statewide push to get ethnic minorities to sign up for insurance.
Salmonellosis is another bacterial infection that may be transmitted from cats to humans. The transmission method is through feces. Cats may get contaminated by eating raw meat, wild animals that are carriers of the bacteria or by eating feces from contaminated felines.he infection occurs if you are scratched or bitten by a cat that is infected with the bacteria. Fleas may also transmit this infection. The cat scratch disease is manifested through symptoms such as inflamed lymph nodes, fever, muscle pain and headaches.
Both SIV and FIV cause diseases very similar to human AIDS, and can sometimes be fatal to monkeys and cats (but these viruses are harmless to humans). In addition, all of these viruses are transmitted in very similar ways (sexual contact, mother-to-baby, blood-to-blood contact, etc.).