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not really. Presumably most people don’t have direct contact with skunks; however, that doesn’t mean skunks can’t pick up viruses They looked at the nose, lungs and feces of 80 free-ranging skunks around Vancouver and found influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in one skunk, which had been hit by a car. The skunk was euthanized because of the severity of its injuries and didn’t have any obvious signs of respiratory disease, but when tissues were examined histologically (under a microscope), there were signs of inflammation in the nasal pas*ages. A flu virus was isolated and testing identified it as the human pandemic H1N1 strain. Given the strain, it’s as*umed that the skunk was infected by a person. It probably wasn’t from direct contact, but there are various ways that indirect contact could occur. One would be through garbage. It’s fairly easy to envision a skunk rooting through a garbage bag that might have contained used tissues from a person with flu. Whether a skunk can pas* the virus on to other skunks (or to Movement of this flu strain into different an*mal species isn’t too surprising. It’s been found in a few species already, including household pets (dogs, cats, and ferrets). Skunks probably play little to no role in human flu transmission, and infected skunks may be “dead-end hosts” (infected individuals that don’t pas* the virus on any further) or at least rarely affected enough that they don’t pose much risk for propagating infection. Regardless, this show how infectious diseases can do strange and unexpected things, and that we’re not a population of people living amongst populations of dogs, cats, cattle, birds… and skunks… but rather we’re all one big population of an*mals that can periodically share diseases. So, washing your hands may not save a skunk, but it’s still good for you (and those around you, both human and an*mal). Flu also isn’t the reason I’d  stay away from skunks – rabies and getting sprayed are far bigger issues.  But the concepts of “let wildlife