Can my dog get me sick?

Pedro_P

It’s possible, but it’s not the most likely culprit.
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Unfortunately for us, the line of disease transmission does not end with germy children and coughing colleagues. Dogs, cows, mosquitos, ticks, mice, sushi, your neighborhood cat lady’s beloved roving Romeo—the list goes on—are all opportunity for disease. But why? How does one disease affect multiple species? Aren’t we all too different?
Not at all. Infectious diseases arise from contact with parasites, bacteria, and viruses. While many diseases are species specific, like a dog-specific cold virus, others, such as the influenza virus, are able to mutate and insert pieces of DNA from other organisms into themselves. If they gather enough DNA from one species, this enables them to invade and infect that animal. These illness-causing organisms move from one species to another so often that we’ve even created a name for them, zoonotic diseases. The diseases can spread directly from one infected species to another or they can live inside another species, an intermediate host, who isn’t susceptible to the infectious organism but interacts with other animals that are. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Chang Tikhak

Good info...will be careful...I have three dogs...