Other Animal Disease -- Antarctica
You can give your cat the flu. You can also pass pneumonia to a chimpanzee or tuberculosis to a bird. This kind of human-to-animal disease transmission, known as reverse zoonosis, has been seen on every continent except one: Antarctica. Now, human-linked pathogens in bird poop reveal, for the 1st time, that even animals on this isolated ice-bound landmass can pick up a bug from tourists or visiting scientists. This newly identified infection route could have devastating consequences for
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6209481&promed&0
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