date:Aug 02, 2018
There are plenty of ways that the animals we love can make us sick.
Monkeys, bats and a menagerie of other critters can spread Ebola. Mosquitoes are behind outbreaks of West Nile, deer mice were to blame for Yosemite campers hantavirus a while back and pigs have infected many people with swine flu.
Its as if the animals are plotting a revolution to overthrow us.
But its nothing new. Plague, yellow fever and cholera have been around for ages, as well as a host of other zoonoses, or diseases th