Friday, January 21, 2011

DISEASE CROSSOVER BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS

Pet owners rarely believe that many diseases and illnesses pass between humans and their pets. However, they do, even beyond dogs, cats, and mice.  More than fifty years ago, most children sported a pet turtle in a fish bowl with a little water and some rocks in it.  However, few are aware that the reason they came out of pet stores was that they were pulled because of the number of children who contracted salmonella from them.  Now it is known that reptiles also can infect humans with salmonella from being handled.  Word from the CDC.

Corn snakes, a very playful, friendly pet by many pose the threat to handlers who keep them around food or do not take antiseptic precautions when cleaning up after handling and carefully washing hands and food surfaces..
See more here.
and more here.

This article describes the danger of dogs or humans contracting pneumonia back and forth between them.  See here. 

 Needless to say there are also many parasites beyond giardia and worms but, again, too many people see nothing wrong with kissing their pets or having them like their faces and mouths as soon as they come in from the outdoors after using the world beyond as their personal toilets.and say 'how are you?' with a nose-in-butt routine where their noses re clearly better at diagnosing than their non-empirical thinking brains.




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