Thanks Monkey With a Gun, that’s a good cite- I had not thought of Giardia. I had assumed that it was mainly transmitted by waterborne means, but I see it’s pretty common in daycares.
I have no doubt that parasites exist in infants. I was merely expressing doubt at a blanket statement by a poster who, to be candid, has in the past shown a distinct tendency to issue unsupported “factoids”, especially when talking about how disgusting small children are.
You on the other hand, answered my question, albeit with a bit of attitude. It is the pit though, so whatever.
Wait a minute though… I don’t want to completely backtrack here, but this doesn’t say that you’re more likely to get it from exposure to baby shit than dog shit, only that most people get it from baby shit. That’s not the same statistic.
Just so I’m not misunderstood… I’m not disputing the citation, but it is talking about the most common mode of infection, which may be common by differential frequency of exposure, rather than differential risk from the two types of exposure.
By comparison; dozens of people died of bee stings in the USA last year, whereas only two died of shark attack. We can’t conclude on this basis that an encounter with an individual shark is less risky than an encounter with an individual bee.
(although you’d have been better not to compare the normal levels in animals against the peak in children, but I’m nitpicking now, as the normal levels in children are still higher elsewhere in your citation)
Wow, 3 pages before I checked back after starting this!
Now I don’t really care about what if any diseases humans can catch from dog buttholes. I was just saying how gross it was.
Would ANYBODY here watch a dog roll over and lick its cute lil anus, and then let it give you lil doggie kisses with tongue on your mouth? Anybody? Well, why not? You probably won’t get sick, right?
Yeah sure, birds might poop on the table. But really, as an argument here? Is day old dried bird poop really that gross? And you can see it, and most likely avoid it. But do you know where that dog rubbed it’s stinkhole on the table right before you sat down? You probably even put both hands down on the table to steady yourself as you were sitting.
Not sure we’ve got any of those here, but dog owners that do the whole “c’mere! whose a lovely boy! give momma a big licky, open mouth, tongue-in-my mouth kiss!” are fucking mental anyway. Hygiene considerations don’t enter into it.