Howard Nemerov
2011-01-29 10:26:32
As a health care professional, another question arises from this ANECDOTE. Open sores on the feet can be symptomatic of serious immune deficiencies. Thus, the person in question could have been very ill already, or perhaps unusually vulnerable to her pet’s saliva, when a healthy immune system would have blocked any opportunistic saliva-transmitted infection.
Such “news” stories serve more to discredit the media who published it.
