Pukipoms Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Could there be a dog flu that is one day passed onto humans? how does the bird flu/swine flu get passed onto humans? what other disease, virus can a person catch from there pets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rysup Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 You can get Pscittacosis (sp) from birds. I guess there is always a chance that any virus can mutate and cross infect species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puggy_puggy Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 This lastest outbreak of Swine Flu is actually a combination of pig, human and bird flu which somehow combined together in pigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poodlefan Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Google is a wonderful thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evolving Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Could there be a dog flu that is one day passed onto humans? how does the bird flu/swine flu get passed onto humans? what other disease, virus can a person catch from there pets? Viruses sometimes jump species but as they did not evolve to be in that species it is rare and can result in the death of the other species as they have no immunity to it. As for jumping from species to species it happens when people live in close proximity to the animal. Usually only that one person is effected as it will not be a contagious pathogen in humans. (this is what still happens from bird flu it jumps from bird to human but not human to human so far). The problem comes when the human who catches pig flu already has a normal human flu. They can mix together and create a deadly strain of the virus that will jump from human to human. A person can catch toxoplasmosis from a cat. It is only really bad when a woman is pregnant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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