Please Stay Indoors

I have been noticing a lot of climbers outside now that the weather is nice. Besides bats, wasps and rattlers you might encounter on the rocks, here is a partial list of agents that can carry infectious organisms. Also, remember that rocks let loose occasionally and that it can be wet and cold or hot and humid. So please climb indoors for your safety and comfort (and to allow me more flexibility in my route selections.) Thank you.

§ Assassin bugs § Bats § Bank voles § Birds § Cats § Cattle § Chimpanzees § Dogs § Fish § Fleas § Flies § Geese § Goats

§ Hamsters § Horses § Humans § Lice § Mice § Monkeys § Mosquitos § Opossums § Pigs § Rabbits and hares § Raccoons § Rats

§ Rodents § Sloths § Sheep § Snails § Ticks

Some of the diseases you can catch from the above agents:

§ Anthrax § Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) § Babesiosis § Barmah Forest virus § Bartonellosis § Bilharzia § Bolivian hemorrhagic fever § Brucellosis § Borrelia (Lyme disease and others) § Borna virus infection § Bovine tuberculosis § Campylobacteriosis § Chagas disease § Chlamydophila psittaci § Cholera § Cowpox § Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) § Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever § Cryptosporidiosis § Cutaneous larva migrans	§ Dengue fever § Ebola § Echinococcosis § Escherichia coli O157:H7 § Eastern equine encephalitis virus § Western equine encephalitis virus § Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus § Hantavirus § Hendra virus § Henipavirus § Korean hemorrhagic fever § Kyasanur forest disease § Lábrea fever § Lassa fever § Leishmaniasis § Leptospirosis § Listeriosis § Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus § Malaria § Marburg fever § Mediterranean spotted fever § Monkey B § Nipah fever § Ocular larva migrans	§ Omsk hemorrhagic fever § Ornithosis (psittacosis) § Orf (animal disease) § Oropouche fever § Plague § Puumala virus § Q-Fever § Psittacosis, or "parrot fever" § Rabies § Rift Valley fever § Ringworms (Tinea canis) § Salmonellosis § Sodoku § Streptococcus suis § Toxocariasis § Toxoplasmosis § Trichinosis § Tularemia, § Typhus of Rickettsiae § Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever § Visceral larva migrans § West Nile virus § Yellow fever