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Can I get a disease?!
Okay so long story short, my parents saw an injured bird and helped it. They touched it. Well I wasn't there, but what if they have a disease now and I get it too? Do wild birds have diseases?
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My daughter and I helped an injured bird in our yard before too. Never got ill.
If you visit any childrens petting zoo, the basic rules they teach you is that after touching any animals, whether wild or domestic or raised on a farm, is to wash your hands thoroughly after touching. A local petting zoo I visited with grand daughter recently had portable hand washing stations for use before exiting the farm after petting the goats, rabbits and chicks. These aren't even animals out in the wild and its still important to wash. So most likely being adults, your parents know this rule and washed their hands after handling it. Even if they forget, its not 100% guaranteed that we can catch a disease from touching a wild creature. We are more likely to get very ill from eating under cooked meat of a wild animal than from merely touching them.
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