*Uh oh. According to some of the warning in a recent review from The Ohio State University, our days may be numbered.
“Our” meaning those of us with pets. Those of us who allow our cute little doggie to lick our face. Those of us who let our cats snuggle up to us in bed.
According to the university’s recent findings, there are at least 5 diseases we might want to watch out for.
The Centers for Disease Control talks about a Colorado man who caught the plague from his pit bull terrier. Yeah, that same plague that wiped out hordes of folks way-back-when. But hold on. The man is said to have survived. It was the poor pup that wasn’t so lucky.
Jason Stull, Ph.D., is the author of the OSU study, and he claims because it’s hard to track an illness to its source, no one knows exactly how common it is for animals to infect people.
So most pet owners may have little need to panic. At least not about the plague—the Colorado case was the first and only one ever reported.
Overall, the risks are relatively small for the average person,” according to Stull.
But rare is still far from nonexistent.
So researchers combed through more than 500 studies to find out what diseases we can most readily catch from our dog or cat.
They came up with these 5, which are more common than rabies
Learn what they are at EURThisNthat.
