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May 1, 1939

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Animals Bring Us Diseases

Pets, Domesticated and Wild Animals Carry Bacilli Deadly for Humans . . . Are Hosts to Parasites Causing Serious Human Ailments, Death

By William Wolf

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This article was originally published with the title “Animals Bring Us Diseases” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 160 No. 5 (May 1939), p. 282
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0539-282

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