Can you give colds and flu to cats or vice versa?
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No.
Diseases that can cross from one species to another are pretty rare, but more dangerous for that reason.
That's why there's concern about the current Bird Flu threat.
Your cat is immune to most things that you can catch, and vice versa. However, you can communicate some diseases to your cat by stroking it (it licks afterwards) if you don't wash your hands enough, because some of the bugs that can survive on your hands are harmless to you, but infectious for the cat you got them from, and the one you handle next.
It's not a huge problem, because like humans, cats can handle most of the diseases they catch, pretty easily. There are only a few that can cause serious illnesses to develop.
No, just to humans.
No, but you may both have a reaction to pollen at the same time which looks as if you both have a cold. Pollen allergy causes symptoms such as sneezing and runny eyes both in cats and in humans.
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