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Can Dogs Give Kids Strep Throat?

The Expert Vet (05-08-2017) #5069: Can your dog can give your kids strep throat? No! Strep throat does spread between people, even healthy ones who can be carriers, but pediatricians mistakenly tell parents the family dog is how their child got strep throat. The strep present in dogs’ throats is a different strain from the […]

The Expert Vet #5026 (5-05-2014)

The Expert Vet (5-05-2014) #5026: Dr. Donna talks about Fritz’s weight loss on the Halo Healthy Weight challenge and how dogs can have different body types; the truth about zoonotic disease and what illnesses we can actually catch from our pets — for example when a five-year-old had recurrent strep throat, the pediatrician suspected the […]

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