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Isn’t sharing wonderful… unless it’s the flu. Did you know what the unlucky pet is that gets to share the sneezing and the sniffles?
Q: You’ve heard about avian flu and swine flu so you know people can get the 
flu from animals, but what small pet can catch the flu from it’s owner?
A: Owners have to be careful when handling their ferret when they have the flu because the poor little fuzzbutts can easily catch it from their humans. It’s because of this, that ferrets are often used in human influenza studies.
(Source- ABC News- Animals Get the Flu, Too )
That seems so unfair to make a poor little animal suffer like a Human!
Y’all come by now,
Hawk aka BrownDog
I hate to see them be used as lab animals, but having heard of a ferret who has died from the H1N1 virus this year can’t help thinking that at least they are helping their own kind- The Ferret Villa Shelter Battles An Outbreak Of H1N1 Flu.
Although it is harsh, thanks to ferrets less humans will end up dying from h1n1