• Question: what diseases can animals get that humans also get?

    Asked by mazzie10 to Damien, Rachael, Suzi, Tim on 22 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Suzi Gage

      Suzi Gage answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      Hi @mazzie10
      There are quite a few diseases that humans can catch from animals. There are probably other diseases that we both get as well, like cancer.

      Diseases that we catch off animals can include Weils disease, CJD (the human form of mad cow disease), rabies, bird flu, swine flu, toxoplasmosis.

      I’m sure there are lots of others too!

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