Posted on 10/20/2017
For good reason, there is a great deal of interest in the transmission of diseases from animals to humans. Recently, however, medical researchers have started to ask the opposite question: can we make animals sick?
Swine and bird flu are two of the most recent and startling examples of animals passing diseases to humans.
Other unpleasant pet-to-human medical problems include ringworm, roundworm, and hookworm, as well as beaver fever, toxoplasmosis, and rabies.
Although these animal-to-human transmissions are relatively well described, pathogenic traffic in the opposite direct...