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[nyahs__mom]

can your gery get your cold? not sure what i got just my throat is sore and i have congestion and iam coughing a hole lot. just want to make sure that i don't give it to me baby.

[Toni]

My vet said they cant catch our colds and viruses.Its a different bacteria.

[Dave007]

Normally, if you have a cold and a cough, your bird won't get it unless you go over to your bird and sneeze or cough in the bird's face. The reason is that both the sneeze or the cough will have minute amounts of your saliva mixed in and then the bird can get sick. So, stay away from the bird when sneezing or coughing and make sure you have a kleenex or hankerchief if you do sneeze or cough in it's face.

[Luvparrots]

Poor Cathie, I hope you are feeling better knowing your FID can't get your cold.

[Kaedyn]

The majority of diseases that we humans carry can't be transmitted to our fids or vice-versa. The few that can are called zoonotic diseases, such as H5N1 (bird flu) and Psittacosis. The common cold isn't one of them.

 

To give you an idea of which diseases are zoonotic, here is a link to a Wikipedia page on Zoonosis.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis

[judygram]

Thanks Dave and thank you Jim for the link about zoonotic diseases, have never heard of them but I should crawl out of my hole more often so I can find out more.:whistle:

[dblhelix]

What everyone else said! The common human rhino virus (causes human colds) and the standard influenza virs are not communicable from human to bird. There are a few zoonotic diseases but in general you do not need to worry about giving them anything or vice versa. However, the viruses that cause us "colds" are different than bacteria we all have in our mouths and digestive tract. Whether you have a cold or not you should avoid transmitting your saliva to your bird as the bacteria in your mouth could make the bird sick. However even that is fairly low probability unless you are really swapping spit! Dont worry about giving your bird some kisses etc but dont slobber on them either!

[danmcq]

dblhelix wrote:

However even that is fairly low probability unless you are really swapping spit! Dont worry about giving your bird some kisses etc but dont slobber on them either!

 

Very eloquently put Mark, Bravo. I couldn't have put it better myself. Of course, I have been accused of the same. ;-)

 

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[Ina]

Good info, i also did not know this. just proves once again how much a person learns from this forum.

[Sallas]

That swapping spit comment....eww