Can animals and humans transmit diseases to one another?
In the sense that most people think about sexually transmitted diseases, no. The greatest danger to humans is disease carried by fleas, ticks or mites that could jump from the animal to the human during intimate contact. Good bathing and grooming habits usually take care of this problem. If two or more humans are “sharing” an animal, it is possible for diseases to be transmitted from one human to another via the animal because of contact between human bodily fluids. Back to top Aren’t zoos just ugly or unpleasant people who can’t get sex any other way? There are those in the zoo community who will not like this answer, but the truth is that yes, in a very few cases, this is true. Stereotypes are often built upon the most visible examples of a group. An example: in America we don’t see all the intelligent, reasonable people who live in the Middle East region, we only see the fanatical religious terrorists because those are the only people who get vast attention. Is it silly? Of course!
