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by JumpCrisscross 702 days ago
> Pertussis is a bacterium that is a human only thing

B. pertussis “evolved from Bordetella bronchiseptica or a B. bronchiseptica-like ancestor… B. bronchiseptica infects a broad range of mammals, including humans, and although it can cause overt disease such as kennel cough in dogs and atrophic rhinitis in pig” [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro3235#Sec2