germ sharing and sucralose

I had a sugar free gatorade on the table and Noodles climbed off the perch and licked the rim. I am sure that there was VERY little discernible flavor or sucralose left on there, but there may have been some residual from when I was drinking it. I immediately snatched it away (so she made contact for a second or less).

Also--- what can they catch from people? I am sick with something (cold be a cold, could be strep, could be anything). Should I be worried.

Much of the information available discusses avian to human disease transmission. I Googled a bit and anecdotally it appears not very likely, though scholarly articles seem rare. Will keep searching!

I've posted so many times, we do pass stuff to our pets. But often this is not detected and our pets do fine.

Noodles I hope you feel better. I have had strep, and colds, and flu, and my parrots have tried and succeeded in sticking their beaks in my mouth, drinks or food. All did fine.

I had mono late in life at 40, my liver and spleen swelled, do my parents came to go care for me. We ate off paper plates and disposable utensils, used seperate bathroom, they had their own sheets thru brought, used my spare room that i hadn't been in months. My dad caught the mono, became very sickk as well. Discussed with his doctor our precautions, his doc said the virus likely hitched a ride in the bodies of the dogs and passed it to him that way....not saying the dogs caught the virus, but that it could live in their warm bodies long enough to pass it.

Also tho birds can get any influenza virus, they are well equipped not to actually get sick from them on the most part. Evolutionary they have been vectors of influenza for a long long time, as are several other species of mammels that don't get sick.
Viruses don't want their hoast body to die, they just want to be good at spreading.

I'm so very happy that Mrs. Boats no longer teaches as I'm much heavier. She sneeze a couple of times and I would be sick for 10 days!

Hope you feel better quickly...

From what I have read and seen not much transfers with ease. That by no means implies that nothing does, but what does, tends to transfer via a soil based illness. And, what wanders about in our mouth, that can be an issue...