Spanish Dog Raises Questions About Ebola And Animals

Animal rights activists gathered in Madrid today to protest the local government's plans to euthanize a dog that had contact with a nurse's aid who is infected with Ebola.

Teresa Romero contracted Ebola after treating a Spanish missionary who died late last month. She's in the hospital, but the story of her dog, Excalibur, is making international headlines.

Animal rights activists have started a Change.org petition, and Romero's husband is pleading for the dog to be kept alive.

Peter Hudson, the director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State joins Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss whether there is a possibility of human-animal transmission.