Why is it that animals have way less diseases than humans?
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i tell you what i believe .... and we are not being informed by the medical feild ,, but our naturalist are telling it !!!!its all over the net  ........our animals are treated for parasites!!!!!!!!!we humans are not !!!!!!when i was a little girl and let us go back to even  out ancestors  they  treated once a year for  parasites  but  why have we quit??????? not me i found a remedy  and all the hurts and pains that i began getting as i became  older has now dissappeared believe it  or not  i do a dailey parasite program have for several years now nothing compares to it   .... so why are our animals more healthy ????isnt it funny we worm our dogs, cats, horses, cows, and so on  what about  us?????? something  for u to think about
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If an entire species has the same gene, they would all be the same. So if the species was hit with a disease they are vulnerable to, all of them would die because none of them could develop an immunity against it. Gene difference also allows more changes for mutation which is important for long term survival.
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a zoonoses is a parasite that has part of its life cycle in an animal, but infects humans as its final reproductive host. Zoonotic diseases are diseases caused by infectious agents that can be transmitted between animals and humans
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Because we are humans not animals. Yes we are all mammals but animals don't love there mate. They just go to them by instinct. But a real true love can only, and should only be shared with one.
507381
most animals get desexed and I dun think humans actually haveto get.......ye well um animals have funny pointy ears, r more furrier than humans, hav soft fur, some pets hav hilarious features that humans cannot do. And my kitten got attacked lyk every week and is still living up to having a bandage wrapped around it's tail as for the skin was peeling off like 4times, it had fights with bigger cats trying to protect it's home, has a sore muscle, has a broken foot and has a few stitches on it's arms. It goes really well and I dun think humans can actuakly survive very healthily with many injuries happening every week.
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Most of these disorders are common between humans and animals because homo sapiens IS an animal and we therefore share the same basic cellular structure with all other animals. One classic example is diabetes (which can occur in animals besides humans; you don't see it much because it is selected against in nature), caused by improper functioning of the mitochondria through the lack of insulin production. Cyanide causes death by asphyxiation through almost the same process; the mitochondria cannot metabolize, and death results.
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Absolutely.  As a matter of fact, some dogs even become paralyzed just the same as humans do.  There are some dogs who have been seen with a platform on wheels holding their bottom half of the body so that they can still walk using their front legs to move forward and backward.\n\nSome people may not agree that this should be done but nonetheless, it has been done on many occasions.\n\nYou should also know that despite how different humans and dogs seem to be, we both have almost the same organs inside our bodies as well.  Dogs and humans have hearts, kidneys, lungs, liver and many other parts that all behave the same way.  This is why dogs can develop the same illnesses as humans such as diabetes, heart failure, kidney problems, etc.\n\nIn today's society, it is so much more important that we treat our dogs (and cats who are much the same) humanely because they do suffer from so many of the same problems as us.  Just as we have doctors, they have veterinarians.\n\nIn many places in North America, one can purchase health insurance for their pets which is probably a good idea if you have a very young animal since it will live quite a number of years and if it has any problems, just like humans do, it requires medical help.  All this costs money and if health insurance is good for humans, then it only makes good sense for animals.\n\nAt the very least, make sure you have your pets vaccinated and spayed or neutered (unless it is a breeding animal) and take good care of your pet.  I don't believe that very small children should have pets around on a regular basis because they don't understand how delicate puppies, kittens or small breeds of dogs really are.  If a small dog gets tossed around or dropped enough, then bones are easily broken and this definitely includes the spine (or back) that you asked about in the first place.\n\nI hope I was able to help you and perhaps you have learned something in the process.
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it would be more likely to be an animal do you have dogs? they can be carriers of strep and flu and not show any signs
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Well, first of all, it's hardly clear this is the case.  I'd call it false, especially if you're talking about animals in general.\n\nIn humans, though, I think the primary factor in why women are traditionally less sexually agressive is due to having more to risk.  Pregnancy impacts a woman far more than getting a woman pregnant necessarily impacts the male.  With more to lose, women would be expected to be more reticent.  This becomes built into the social framework, resulting in the traditional gender roles, now falling apart due to the increased power of women in modern society of avoiding unwanted pregnancies.
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Animals cannot get the same stds that people get.  Human STDs are specific to us - that includes crabs.  Crabs evolved to hold onto human hair - not fur, which has a different structure.  Things like human herpes, HPV, syphillis, etc. also have evolved to affect only human hosts.  \n\nThere are STDs that affect animals though.  They cannot transmit them to us and we cannot transmit our to them.  \n\nEven plants have diseases that are tranmitted through pollenation - which is one form of plant sexuality!\n\nAnimals can transmit Hepatitis A, salmonella and other infectious diseases - but they are not considered stds.\n\nAnimals cannot get HIV because that is HUMAN immunodeficiency virus.  Some animals (like cats, monkeys, apes, and others) do have immunodeficency viruses, but they are not transmittable to us and we can't get theirs.\n\nAlthough some animals share about 90-95% of the same genes as we do - that 10 to 5% is still a huge amount of genes that we don't share.
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Because energy is wasted everytime it is passed on from organism to organism, so it's just not efficient for an animal to eat a high up animal when the less high up animals have more energy.  Something would have to eat a lot of humans, for instance, to be full up.
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Because animals don't have to accomplish as many tasks, so they can specialize on a few specific tasks and learn to perfect them. Humans take on a greater number of tasks, most of which are highly complex, so they can't specialize as easily.
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Humans ARE animals. We are a mammalian species of bipedal primates called "homo sapiens."\n\nMany people believe humans are separate from animals because of our superior intelligence, but I think intelligence is just a trait that every animal has, some more than others. Cheetahs and peregrine falcons are superior in speed, elephants and Kodiak bears are superior in strength, and squirrels and jaguars are superior in agility, for a few other examples of superiority. Just because we are capable of more things than other animals intellectually does not make us something foreign to the Animal Kingdom.
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Probably the smallest country.  \nDue to diet, environmental, and hereditary conditions etc ,. each country may have different cancers that are more predominant.  Animals get cancer too and  receive the same types of treatment.  It appears to be everywhere.
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Only 10 percent of all animals in the animal kingdom mate for life, so the odds against humans being monogamous.And love has nothing to do with sex,as the worlds oldest professions can attest to!
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Because they are natural carriers.  Their immune system is designed to deal with it.
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our genetic code is 99.999 % similar.\n\nsince human species has not arrived too long (on a geological/whatever scale) the varation of genes between humans is very little.\n\nthere is much more genetic varaibility between chimps, monkeys, cows, rats etc....than between humans.