How can animals eat old meat and drink dirty water and not get sick ?

Subject: How can animals eat old meat and drink dirty water and not get sick ?

Date: Sat Oct 20 17:42:30 2001
Posted by Maureen
Grade level: 10-12 School: No school entered.
City: St.Louis State/Province: MO Country: usa
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 1003614150.Zo

Message:


Animals eat and drink alot of dirty old stuff.  If I drink from a stream I may 
get dysenteri. Or if I eat off a dead horse carcass I would probably get eColi 
or botulism.  Why don't the animals get sick from what they eat?

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