Veterinarians know pets transmit viral, bacterial and parasitic infections to their owners, cats transmit toxoplasmosis to owners, and horses can transmit chlamydia psittacosis. Veterinarians know owners can transmit pathogens to the pets, and lists of human and animal diseases are similar. The “Atlas of CLINICAL OPHTHALMOLOGY” warns cats and dogs can transmit pathogens that cause eye disease.
Literature supports pathogens can migrate from one part of the eye to another, which may then be treated by a different ophthalmology specialty, and a common cause not recognized. Literature supports infectious causes of many co-morbid conditions, in chronic eye disease, which are also treated by a different specialties, and the common cause not recognized.
Ophthalmology specialties are not trained in a medical approach to diagnosing and treating chronic eye diseases, or to consider immortal pathogens as a cause of chronic eye disease. The history obtained from ophthalmology patients should include contact with animals, including dogs, cats, birds, horses and other livestock. Chronic eye diseases of “unknown origin” should be investigated for root infectious causes, including animal pathogens, parasites, and H-pylori.
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