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Originally Posted by sageofages
It is the human form of the Parvovirus b19. Only humans get it, it is not the same as what you immunize your pets for.
I am confident all 5 of my children have had it at one time or other....it is more of an inconvenience illness than anything.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/.../parvo_b19.htm |
This is correct however, we did have a parent call us one day saying that the neighbor's dog had parvovirus and because her child had been playing with the dog and then got sick, she thought the child got parvovirus from the dog.