• Question: do all animals react the same way to certain illnesses? :)

    Asked by *Izzy* to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 18 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Richard Unwin

      Richard Unwin answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      HI Izzy,

      No they don’t. Some diseases can have severe effects in animals that don’t affect us, and vice versa. It very much depends on the animal and the disease.

    • Photo: Sara Falcone

      Sara Falcone answered on 18 Nov 2015:

      It really depends on the disease.
      There are lots of diseases that are very similar and that’s why you can use an animals as a model, like diabetes, some kidneys diseases or even cardiac diseases (for example the Main Coon cats are used as model of a cardiac diseases that often affects athletes, HCM).

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