Dang, I am going to have to turn everything off. Smallpox is pathogen and be assured mice can get it. It may not cause the same signs and symptom in mice as humans and it may not cause any signs and symptoms but mice can get it.
Also they may only get it for a short spell because unlike modern man, mice still have an immune system.
Pathogens are pathogens. Sheep and cows are both subject to the exact same pathogens UNLESS they are effectively vaccinated against one or the other.
No, different pathogens affect different species.
There's a whole spectrum, from things like smallpox which only affect a single species (which is why it was eradicated, because there was no reservoir in any other species), to things like rabies that can hit practically anything mammalian.
This is evidenced by the very very different vaccination schedules published for different species. Vaccines are tailor-made to protect against the pathogens that affect each species. So children are vaccinated against measles and whooping cough and polio and diptheria and so on, and puppies against distemper (related to measles but different) and parvovirus and Rubarth's disease and so on, and kittens are vaccinated against panleucopenia and herpesvirus and calicivirus and leukaemia virus, and calves are vaccinated against BVD and IBR and Leptospira (and even lungworm!) and so on, and lambs are vaccinated against Pasteurella and Clostridia....
These are the things vets and farmers need to know. The information is not hard to find though. You should go look it up.
Indeed, different pathogens will produce different pathology in different species, where they affect multiple species. We spend a lot of time learning about this in college. But there are still lots of pathogens that only affect a very narrow range of species.
This is good, because it means I'm not much worried about catching diseases in the post mortem room. Most of the things the animals I deal with died of, I can't catch. Thankfully.
Because "disease" is just a name for signs and symptoms grouped together it in no way classifies a different variety of pathogens which means one virus in a cow might cause different signs and symptoms is say a sheep or mouse.
Indeed it might. Or then again, it might just not infect some of these species.
Also, diabetes is diabetes no matter if you are a cat, mouse or human in so much as there is a failure in the pancreas allowing issues with insulin production. Cows would have insulin production issues if they were not prevented from having the signs and symptoms associated with the disease known as diabetes.
Now that's where you're seriously wrong. Even in man, diabetes is divided into type I (juvenile onset) and type II (insulin resistance). Whereas type I is indeed characterised by a failure of insulin production, this is not the case for type II. Instead, patients with type II become resistant to the insulin they are producing. They can have extremely, astronomically
high insulin concentrations, even though they have diabetes.
Cats and dogs mainly get type II. Though dogs in particular will experience a reduction in insulin production as the disease progresses. Horses are different again, where diabetes is part of the progression of equine Cushing's disease, caused by an age-related adenomatous change of the pars intermedia of the hypothalamus. Such horses usually have very high insulin concentrations.
I hate to seem cocky but if you learn how to cure diseases said to be incurable you to will be cocky.
You're delusional. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Rolfe.
