Can DOGS get salmonella from Peter Pan Peanut Butter scare?
Dogs might be able to but not from the same Salmonella that makes humans sick. In the past few weeks Peter Pan Peanut Butter AND Great Valley peanut butter contained traces of salmonella. Why It Is Harder for Dogs to Get It: The specific molecules on the outside of a bacteria cell will determine if that cell can attach to the intestines of the animal. Other molecules determine if that cell can then invade and infect the intestinal cell. Dogs and humans have intestinal cells with different characteristics, so it takes just the right kind of pathogenic bacterium to make each species sick.
