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To: Scythian

A: I worm my dogs monthly with Sentinel and 3 times a year, they all get a round of Panacur, just in case.
B: I have no children and no personal inclination to ‘sample’ their droppings, myself which is how a few children end up infested.
[of course, if parents would bother to watch their kids, they would probably dissuade them from eating dog or cat crap]
C: Very few canid parasites can cross the species barrier.

You have a phobia.
Stop trying to infect other people with it.

Oddly enough, the internal parasites that *most* people have do NOT come from their pets.

In third world countries with little or no sanitation, the people are infested with all sorts of exotic creepy-crawlies.

My advice to you is NEVER travel overseas and if you do, -don’t- drink the water.

Here’s a list guaranteed to give you nightmares:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parasites_(human)

NOBODY is ever truly safe from parasitic infestation, having pets or not.

Sweet dreams.


60 posted on 04/24/2009 8:21:09 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.......)
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To: Salamander
CDC Reports Prevalence Of Worms Transmitted By Dogs And Cats To Humans Is Higher Than Previously Understood

Cross species? Hardly, Anything that can infect your cat and dog will be quite happy to live in you, even dog heartworm is being transmitted to humans now by misquito bytes.
62 posted on 04/25/2009 6:34:18 AM PDT by Scythian
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