Can cows get chickenpox

Answer 1

Generally, animals do not get chickenpox. It affects humans and a few other primates, such as gorillas. It does not affect cats, dogs, and other typical pets.

Answer 2

No, chickens neither spread or catch chicken pox (more precisely known as Varicella zoster, a member of the herpes family).

So why is it called "chicken" pox? As chicken or chick usually denotes a small thing (e.g. chicken feed), the name was probably chosen to differentiate it from the really nasty poxes like small pox which is really bad and the great pox (syphilis) which is worse. Then again it could be that, as chicken comes from the old English "cicen" which originally meant "young fowl" the name was chosen to indicate that only a parent's young children (chicks) were likely to catchthe disease.

Answer 3

There are only a couple illnesses that cross species, e.g. from animal to human. For example, pregnant women can contract toxoplasmosis from cleaning cat litter boxes. The biggest risk to humans is bacterial infections; for example, if a cat claws your arm, the wound could become infected because the paws and claws touch bowel movements which contains E-Coli bacteria.

Otherwise, humans cannot give viruses to humans, nor can humans give viruses to cats or other animals. For example, if your cat has a cold with runny nose and sneezing, and shortly thereafter, you got a cold, it would be purely coincidental; you and the cat got the virus somehow but not from each other.

Chickenpox is a virus and does not affect animals.

One caution, however! If one child has open seeping sores of chickenpox and holds a pet so that some of the fluid gets on the pet's fur, then another child who has never had the illness holds the cat immediately after the first child, there is a slight risk that any wet fluid on the cat's fur *could* infect another child.

However, if all persons in the home have had chickenpox, no one will re-acquire the illness even if wet fluid from the chickenpox sores was wiped all over the fur, then wiped to the skin from the fur. Chickenpox is a one-time illness. After age 50, some people can develop shingles which is from the same virus that causes chickenpox.

Answer 4

No, only humans and a few primates, such as gorillas, can get chickenpox.

Answer 5

Neither horses nor chickens can get chickenpox. Chickenpox only infects humans and a few other primates.

Answer 6

Horses can't get chickenpox. Only humans and a few other primates can get chickenpox.

Answer 7

No.