The agency has acknowledged that it has little scientific basis to believe that humans could contract the disease through a blood transfusion.

Antibiotic resistance was the subject of a recently released report from the National Academy of Sciences, which found that humans can contract antibiotic-resistant infections from food animals.

Dr. Reed's new finding raises the intriguing possibility that humans contracted one strain of the Pediculus louse from another host species.

In a few rare cases, humans have contracted parasite-induced meningitis from eating raw slugs.

There are numerous diseases that humans may contract from endogenously infected meat, such as anthrax, bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, salmonellosis, listeriosis, trichinosis or taeniasis.

- Although there are number of ways in which humans can contract parasitic infections, observing basic hygiene and cleanliness tips can reduce its probability.

Orf is a zoonotic disease, meaning humans can contract this disorder through direct contact with infected sheep and goats or with fomites carrying the orf virus.

They theorize that humans contracted the virus by hunting these chimps and handling their meat.

If humans can contract this from Bajorans, we have no idea about how long the incubation period might be or how it would manifest itself at first.

It is thought that humans can contract the disease by consuming material from animals infected with the bovine form of the disease.