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Animal-handler dander dust

Airborne dander, hair particles, and dried urine particulate generated during animal handling or husbandry.

Airborne form

dust

The form describes what is suspended in air at the point of exposure. A material can produce more than one form, such as dust during handling and fume during heating.

Health effects

animal handlers' lunghypersensitivity pneumonitis concernrespiratory sensitizationallergic respiratory inflammation

Evidence

CCOHS lists dust of dander, hair particles, and dried urine of rats as an exposure associated with animal handlers' lung.

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Background · 1
About 33% of animal handlers have allergic symptoms, and approximately 10% have symptoms of animal-induced asthma. Animals or animal products such as dander, hair, scales, fur, saliva, and body wastes contain powerful allergens that can cause both respiratory and skin disorders.

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