AOL... that's the company that keeps charging you for their services after you quit them, and even after you threaten to kill them if they don't stop siphoning money from your account, right?

That really makes me want to trust everything they say...

What might happen is usually totally different from what does happen.

"The CDC estimates that more than 20,000 people can contract cat scratch disease a year, but the federal disease agency could offer no information on the number of deaths."

If the CDC doesn't have any figures, there probably aren't too many to collect, or they don't think it's very important.

"A 9-year-old boy from Arizona got the plague because he slept with his flea-infested cat."

It's the fleas transmitting the disease, and you can easily have fleas in your house even though you have no pets.

"A 48-year-old man and his wife repeatedly contracted MRSA ..., which their physicians eventually attributed to their dog."

The most common source of MRSA is other people, like in elder care centers, hospitals, schools and prisons. The couple were probably transmitting it back and forth to each other.

"...a woman died of septic shock and renal failure after her cat, with whom she slept, licked open sores on her feet and toes."

So... what was causing the open sores on the woman's feet???

"... an outbreak of salmonella in 79 people between 2006 and 2008 that was caused by contaminated meat in dry cat and dog food."

That was caused by humans, unless dogs or cats were involved in the processing of the food at the factory, which doesn't seem likely, although they might have been part of the ingredients in the food.

Doctors keep blaming cats for ringworm, when studies have proven that is is transmitted mostly by other people/kids, and that they're giving it to the cats.

Doctors keep telling pregnant women to get rid of their cats because of the dangers of toxoplasmosis. Even if the cat has toxoplasmosis, it isn't infective except for a short time. Have the cat tested, dorks! If you don't want to do that, have DADDY scoop the litter box, and then insist he wash his hands afterwards.

This was probably written by some guy who routinely picks up hookers and has unprotected sex.

Sue