Humans, Animals, and Parasites Oh My!

To complement our learning in principles of disease, we’ve been learning how the same infectious diseases and parasites of animals affect humans and yikes, it was really gross!! B/c animals are part of the food chain, us vets got to know our stuff to protect the 2-leggers too! Btw, a message to all contact wearers out there: never use water to temporarily store or lubricate your contacts. (I saw something really gross that resulted in a guy losing one of his eyes b/c of microscopic parasites in the water…) Also had a glimpse of children and adults pooing out buckets of tapeworms. I can handle animals, but humans. Blah! I’m still cringing over here.