I quit reading half way through. There are waaaay to many variables to that article to apply it to "all" or "most". Everything they talked about "could" happen with "close contact" with your pet not just at bedtime, and even then conditions have to be right. Are we supposed to live in a bubble? It was really more of a common sense article. Also, it is hard to compare a small primarily indoor lap dog, to a large free roaming farm dog in terms of where they have been allowed to roam and play to pick up parasites and diseases to spread. I find it hard to beileve they could trace MRSA back to a dog's lick. That is speculation not fact. I was a dirty, barefoot running, animal loving kid who would rather spend the night in the barn with the animals than my own bed and I am pretty darn healthy. Whoa! I think that article touched a nerve. I say, add another they keep me warm!
LOL.