Discover Magazine (Nov. 14) – Even though humans are pretty distant relatives of cats and dogs, we can still catch diseases from them simply because of how much time we spend together. “We have this much more intimate relationship with our companion animals than we do with wildlife and other things we might come across,” says William Sander, an assistant professor of preventive medicine and public health at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “There’s just a more increased chance of that happening.”
Diseases You Can Get from Your Pet
