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Comment author: root 06 August 2016 09:40:33PM 1 point [-]

Is there a possibility that those diseases will move to a different animal?

Comment author: James_Miller 06 August 2016 09:46:25PM 3 points [-]

There is also limited evidence from one study done in Indonesia in the late 1970s that horses, cows, carabaos (water buffaloes), goats, ducks, and bats could become infected with Zika, but there is no evidence that they develop disease or pose a risk for Zika virus transmission to humans.

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a type of malaria that naturally infects macaques in Southeast Asia, also infects humans, causing malaria that is transmitted from animal to human

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Comment author: root 06 August 2016 10:00:13PM 1 point [-]

Excellent!

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