Cats and dogs can't catch your cold

[Catherine]

Actually if we quit shaking hands we would cut cold and flu transmission right down.

I let someone with the flu hand me something once. I had avoided her all day because she was sick. I took one thing directly from her hand. I was sick for a week. She was the only person I encountered who had the flu so she must have been the source.

I would have been safer to kiss a hamster or a guinea pig.