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Many people, especially lonely ones, choose a pet as their companion. They live with it, in close physical proximity to their pet. They put it in their bed, they eat from the same plate, they kiss, not thinking about where the pet's tongue has been before. This kind of marriage has dangers that the loving owner does not think about at all during their idyllic coexistence. And the over-sterilized, over-sanitized immune system is often helpless against an animal disease that has spread to humans. A conversation between Dr. Lajos Szolnoki and István Jakab.