Cat and dog owners with COVID-19 can pass on their illness to their fellow felines and canines, according to a small one published on Friday.
The new coronavirus is a “zoonotic” infection, which means it has jumped into human animals, and there are few symptoms that animals play a major role in spreading the virus, it is increasingly evident that cats, dogs and even tigers can contract it. .
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In the most recent initial research, which has not been peer-reviewed, veterinary scientists in Canada tested the pets of a other people’s organization with a proven diagnosis of COVID-19.
In the first group, they took swabs of 17 cats, 18 dogs and a ferret whose owners were diagnosed within two weeks, all of which were negative for an existing disease, for an unclear result.
They then tested the blood antibodies of 8 cats and 10 dogs, whose owners were outdoors during the two-week window, comparing them to samples taken from the same animals before the pandemic.
Among cats, the effects indicated the presence of IgG or IgM antibodies at 4 (50 percent) and 3 (38 percent) respectively, while two dogs also tested positive (20 percent).
All cats and one of the dogs carrying antibodies showed symptoms of breathing or another disease at the same time as their owners.
“While the number of eligible participants was limited due to low rates of human transmission in the area examined, these initial effects recommend that a very large proportion of pets in families with COVID-19 eventually expand antibodies,” said do test co-author Dorothee Bienzle, Professor of Veterinary Pathology at Guelph University in Ontario.
Independent experts commenting on the research, which will be presented at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases convention on coronavirus disease e-clock by the end of this month, said the length of the pattern was too small to draw general conclusions and that puppy owners would not be alarmed.
Sally Cutler, a professor of medical microbiology at the University of East London, said there is insufficient evidence to justify other people seeking to isolate themselves from their animals.
“Pets can be a source of convenience for humans, especially when they are sick,” he said, adding that it has still been shown whether pets can simply be a source of human infection.
Cats and domestic dogs in Europe in the United States tested positive for the pandemic virus, while in April, the Bronx Zoo in New York reported that a tiger had spread the virus, probably from an asymptomatic caregiver.
The World Health Organization said it is not transparent if inflamed animals pose a threat to humans.
However, epidemics on ferret-like mink farms have raised considerations about transmission to humans.
At least two agricultural workers in the Netherlands were discovered inflamed with COVID-19 in May, most likely through mink, and claimed that they may be the “first known cases of animal-to-human transmission”.
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