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Old 08-03-2021, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser View Post
Whitetail deer can live pretty close to human homes - so, deer ticks fall off them onto plants on a woods trail - then bite a dog and then back home to people's house. That is just throwing out possible ideas. Also, I believe that a Puma in a zoo caught CV.
And that's how a dog can introduce Lyme disease into your home, but not COVID---completely different route of transmission. (Oh, and if your the guy who likes my big words, the spirochete of Lyme disease is Borrelia burgdorferi and the tick is Ixodes dermacentor)