Health concerns when handling coyote carcass

[Stuart C.]

Are there any?
Can humans and/or pets/dogs pick up some nasty infectious stuff from coyotes?
Do you take precautions when handling, and in what way?
Thanks!

[helotaxi]

Fleas and ticks would be my primary concern, but since coyotes eat carrion I'd at least wear rubber gloves (I keep a bag of nitrile gloves in my pack).

[hillbill]

ive shot some yote i wouldnt even touch with my boot,dont know what they were carrying but i dint want none of it.i have skinned hundreds of normal appearing yotes with no ill effects. some were a little scroungy but never caught nuttin.

[Swift One]

Ive never had any issues with a healthy looking dog. I personally wouldn't handle one with the mange though.

[Wyo. Coyote Hunter]

  I don't handle coyotes much, I have a good friend in northern Wy. that is a gov't trapper. One time when we were elk hunting, we took a few days off to try and kill a troublesome coyote. The conversation got around to pelts. He told me he didn't touch 'em any more. Several years before, he became ill. The local doc.s said it was a virus. His girlfriend was a nurse and was convinced it was the plague, but the locals thought she was nuts. She called a doc. she new in Calif. and got the proper medicine for my pals. It was plague,  So from that time on he doesn't touch 'em and I only during very cold mths.