Can humans contract diseases from dogs or cats other than worms and toxoplamosis?
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yes, many problems are species specific but there are quite a few that can be transferred from humans to animals or visa-versa.\nRabies is probably the best known, but ringworm(a fungus) seems to be one of the more common!
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There are different varieties of mites, but the ones that people get and the ones animals get are different. An animal transmitted type could get on you and cause itching and such, but they will die because you are not the host it requires.
1005020
Well... Many animals can swim or float.  So if a parasite is embedded in that creature's skin or oi living inside the intestineal tract, I'd say there wouldn't be too much problem.
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dog, fish, cat, camel, worm
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Pigs and humans: no.\nChimps and humans: maybe.\n\nHonestly, the scientific jury is still out on whether or not humans are able to crossbreed with apes.  Rumours have cropped up within the scientific community for years, but no definitive cases have presented themselves.  Check out the link below for some interesting reading on the topic.
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there are a lot of creatures living in or on the human body, some are useful (helping the digestion) some are harmful (causing diseases) or other annoying ones: itchy mites, ticks, worms, fungi, lice, parasites, bacterias, fleas and others.
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Human and animal diseases can be vastly different. Although both people and animals get the same kinds of diseases, (such as genetic disorders, cancer, heart disease, respiratory problems) a lot of them will not be exactly the same diseases. Diseases also vary as much from one animal to the next as from animals to humans. For example, horses might have illnesses related to the hoof whereas a cat obviously can't! However, most of the metabolic pathways will be the same, so any dietary deficiencies or metabolic disorders usually get the same treatment, adjusted for dose. Vets have to perform a lot more operations such as castrations / spaying / neutering or claw clipping etc. Human doctors would usually refer you to a surgeon. Of course there are veterinary surgeons who specialise only in that, but mostly practitioners will perform both. Medication for animals is usually less tightly regulated as well, and pain relief techniques are a lot less sophisticated. Remember that vets don't have the patient tell them how much it hurts!\n\nSo some will be the same, apart from dosages and maybe slight adjustments to the formula - but any diseases which are species-specific will have their own medication. A lot more money is pumped into r&d for drugs for humans than for animals so the pharmacopoiea will also be more varied for humans.
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Pretty story, but genetically impossible.  Cats and dogs have a common ancestor, sure, but so do cats and people, and dogs and mice, and every single mammal that's around.  Cats and dogs belong to different taxonomical families - they have different chromosome nubers and different genes on different chromosomes that mean that no such thing as pittens or kuppies could be produced.  Yes, horses and donkeys can breed to produce a STERILE offspring - the mule or hinny, but that's because they're extremely closely related members of the equus family with very similar behaviour/courtship.  Cats and dogs aren't even that close.\n\nAnd puppies couldn't be born from implantation in a cat's womb - the DNA would be rejected by the mother as completely foreign.  Its being tried between camelids (alpacas/llamas etc) and an embryo doesn't implant even between these two very closely related species, so there's no way we can implant two such diverse species as a cat and dog, who are as closely related as a human and a lemur, or a horse and a rhinocerous.
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I have always owned cats (right now I have 4) and I have never had any health problems.  \n\nThis is what the experts say:  Some cat-related diseases that make people sick are common, such as cat scratch disease (or cat scratch fever), and others such as plague (play-g), are rare. Toxoplasmosis (TOX-o-plaz-MO-sis) is a disease that can come from cats, but people are more likely to get it from eating raw meat or from gardening. Cats can also carry rabies, a deadly viral disease.  http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/animals/cats.htm\n\nIf your cat has fleas:   Fleas transmit diseases such as plague, typhus, and tularemia to humans. The plague or black death is still found in some western states where rodent populations serve as a reservoir for the disease organisms and where several flea species serve as vectors of the disease to people and pets.  http://www.budgetpestcontrol.com/fleas_and_spiders_.htm\n\nIf your cat has ticks:  Besides their repulsive appearance, ticks are vectors of potentially debilitating and life-threatening diseases. Lyme disease, in particular, has attracted national attention and is now the number one arthropod-borne disease in the United States. Rocky Mountain spotted fever has not received the media attention of Lyme disease, but is potentially more deadly.  http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef618.htm
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probably, yes.  If you own or run a restaurant & keep a cat, or you know someone who does, I suggest you get in touch with your county's/state's health board & find out about that.....I'm pretty sure that's some serious health code violation.
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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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ticks, but they are bugs. I do not know of any animals. But yes what was said above, and bed bugs. Lice, scabies, parasites, etc...
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We humans think because we shower that we are very clean. This is not all true. Cats and dogs spend a good portion of their day cleaning their butts with their mouths,and yet a human bite has a significantly higher risk of becoming infected than that of either cats or dogs. The bacteria that reside on our bodies are not all bad. Anti-bacterial soaps actually do more harm than good by disrupting the natural balance of bacteria on the skin. Anyway Apes aren't that dirty. (although homo-sapiens are considered to be in the great ape family of primates...and we're pretty dirty).
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If a dog bit an infected human then before the virus could die bit an uninfected human it is possible for a dog to transmit HIV that way. Difficult to do since the dog would have to get enough blood with enough virus and then manage to put enough of that into the second human who was bitten. The virus would not live long in a dogs mouth and does not live at all in a dog. So the odds of this happening are a million to one or more. It COULD possibly happen if everything was just right.
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some can, depends on the species
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Animal diseases vary just like human diseases, so there are many different affects.  Do you mean what are the affects in humans?
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Heartworm is a parasitic roundworm (Dirofilaria immitis) that is spread from host to host through the bites of mosquitoes. The heartworm affects dogs, cats, wolves, coyotes, foxes, and some other animals, such as ferrets, sea lions, and even humans. The parasitic worm is called a "heartworm" because the parasite, in the final reproductive stage of its life cycle, resides in the heart of its host where it can stay for many years and may kill its host through congestive failure of the heart.\n\n\nHuman health considerations\nThe dog heartworm is a negligible public health risk, because it is unusual for humans to become infected. Additionally, human infections usually are of little or no consequence, although rarely an infected human may show signs of respiratory disease. In most cases, however, the heartworm dies shortly after arriving in the human lung, and a nodule, known as a granuloma, forms around the dead worm as it is being killed and absorbed. If an infected person happens to have a chest X-ray at that time, the granuloma may resemble lung cancer on the X-ray and require a biopsy to rule out the life threatening condition. This may well be the most significant medical consequence of human infection by the dog heartworm.\n\nAt one time it was thought that the dog heartworm infected the human eye, with most cases reported from the southeastern United States. However, these cases are now known to be caused by a closely-related parasite of raccoons, Dirofilaria tenuis. Several hundred cases of subcutaneous (under the skin) infections in humans have been reported in Europe, but these are almost always caused by another closely-related parasite, Dirofilaria repens, rather than the dog heartworm.