Rumor has it those kisses are clean. “I have heard that, that like their mouth is more clean than the mouth of humans,” Hemphill said. As it turns out rumor is all that is. “I’ve heard it too and I don’t know, I’ve seen some pretty nasty dog mouths and some pretty nasty people mouths too,” Dr. Stephanie Coleman, a veterinarian at South Tyler Animal Clinic, said. A recent report found traces of Neisseria, a bacterium linked to STDs, Pneumonia, and Plaque, all in dog saliva. You may want to think twice before French kissing your dog and bad breath is a sign of that bacteria, but the veterinarians said it doesn’t linger for too long. “But what they’re actually licking you with is their saliva and so if they were to lick something off the ground and then lick you, it seems unlikely that it would infect you,” she explained. And all those things they lick and the places that tongue has been, is it possible to actually get an STD from your dog? “I guess it’s possible, nothing is impossible. I don’t think for a normal person and a normal dog it’s really an issue,” she explained. A local infectious disease specialist at Trinity Mother Frances Health Systems agreed. “If I was having chemotherapy and I were immune-suppressed I wouldn’t recommend it ,or if I had someone who doesn’t have a very strong immune system then I would limit that contact with that animal,” Amy Beasley, the director, said.
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