Covid, “humans can pass it on to cats”

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Covid, humans can transmit it to cats. A British study published in ‘Veterinary Record’ documented two cases of domestic felines, infected with the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, last year in the UK in two families with suspected Coronavirus episodes. “These results indicate that Human-to-cat transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occurred during the UK pandemic in the UK“, explains Margaret Hosie of the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research, lead author of the work, stressing that” the infected cats showed mild or severe respiratory diseases. “” Given the ability of the pandemic Coronavirus to infect pets – highlights the researcher – it will be important to monitor the transmission of “SARS-CoV-2” from human to cat, cat to cat and cat to human “.


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