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What is the definiton of a flu that originates in animals and infects humans?
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Diseases passed to humans from animals are called zoonoses.
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Does a virus exist that effects humans similar to the way rabies effects animals?
Rabies can infect humans if the human is bitten by a rabid animal. --It infects humans, but it does NOT effect them the same way it effects animals. Not an answer to the question.
What organism does chickenpox infect?
Chickenpox infects humans as well as a few primate like gorillas. It doesn't infect cats, dogs, birds, or other animals.
What is the vector of the Bubonic Plague?
The disease is transmitted from animals to humans.Plague infects wild rodents, especially rats, and is transmitted animal to animal and occasionally to humans by flea bites. The flea is the vector.
Is it true that HIV also infects the blood of mosquitoes and dogs and can be spread by dog bites and mosquito bites?
No, HIV cannot be spread to humans from mosquito bites or dog bites. There are no animals that can infect humans with the HIV virus by biting or scratching them.
Is a ascaris a flatworm?
Ascarids are not vertebrates; they are of the genus Ascaridae, parasitic nematodes generally thought of as intestinal roundworms. Parascaris equorum, the equine roundworm and probably the most common Ascarid, infects horses, donkeys, and zebras, but is not known to infect humans or other animals. Ascarids are usually species-specific -- Ascaris lumbricoides affects humans and causes the disease ascariasis while Ascaris suum infects pigs, but there is a possibility that these two species may cross-infect humans and pigs.
What is human distemper?
Canine distemper can infect humans. When it infects humans it is known as Paget's disease. It increases the production of osteoclasts. Distemper in dogs will not produce distemper in humans, it is a different disease in humans.
Is malaria caused by a parasitic worm?
Malaria is transmitted through Mosquitoes. The saliva of the female anopheles mosquito contains a protozoa that infects the humans and animals with the malaria parasite.
Do female seahorses give male seahorses trichomoniasis?
Trichomonas vaginalis infects only humans, not seahorses.
What are animals a like humans?
Humans are animals
Are humans the only reservoir for chickenpox virus?
Yes. As with many different diseases it is species specific. That means that it will affect humans. We do not get canine distemper which infects dogs.
Eight examples of a virus that infects humans?
Swine h1n1 virus fungi and fungus and that's all i have sorry:(
A virus that infects the fish in your aquarium will not cause a human disease because?
Enzymes needed for the virus will not be found in humans.
