Coronavirus In Cats And Dogs

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Coronavirus in cats and dogs. A new Covid-19 study on cats and dogs has. Coronaviruses affect many species including camels cattle cats and bats. Some coronaviruses such as canine and feline coronaviruses infect only animals and do not infect people.

This may be because the virus binds more easily to the receptors on the surface of cats cells compared with dogs. Coronaviruses are not particularly hard to please when it comes to potential hosts -- theyve been detected in many mammal and bird species including dogs and cats as well as livestock like cows. According to the Humane Society there are approximately 89 million pet dogs and 94 million pet cats in the US but just 49 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a few pets including cats and dogs also have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. However its symptoms can be similar to a much more serious condition. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses.

Scientists in the Netherlands took swabs from 310 pets in 196 households last year where a human infection had been detected. Canine enteric coronavirus and canine respiratory coronavirus. None of the eight cats and dogs living in the same homes as the pets that tested positive for coronavirus became infected suggesting that the virus didnt spread among the animals.

Some coronaviruses cause cold-like illnesses in people while others cause illness in certain types of animals such as cattle camels and bats. In some species these symptoms present as respiratory disease and in others diarrhea and gastrointestinal upset. Our furry feline friends appear to be susceptible to catching Covid-19 the disease caused by the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2.

Swabs were taken from 310 pets in 196 households where a human infection had been detected. The researchers said that previous studies that found that COVID-19 was more common in pets of infected owners than in pets with no such contact point to human-to-pet transmission rather than pet-to-human. Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak.