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Yes, at least in some cases.

Many disease-causing organisms are specific to a certain ... er ... species, or at least to a group of closely-related species, and cannot thrive, or in some cases even survive, within others.

However, there are a few which are less particular. Diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans are called zoonotic.

One of the most widely-known zoonotic diseases is rabies, which can infect essentially anything warmblooded (it is not known to infect birds in nature, but it has been done in experimental laboratories).

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