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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Eli5: Why are human bites so nasty? I know there are lots of germs in the mouth, but how can they be so much more dangerous than most animal bites?
gpt
Simple: the bacteria and viruses (mostly bacteria) that live in your mouth are pre-adapted to living in humans, and only *some* of the germs in, say, a dog’s mouth can cross the species barrier. The end result is that even though we have about the same amount of germs in our mouths as animals do, the amount of *infectious* germs is far higher.

Still get checked if an animal bit you. Tetanus and rabies are not jokes.