Author Topic: About 15% of cats in Wuhan infected with novel coronavirus, researchers say  (Read 560 times)

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We already had reports of dogs getting infected.  So, that's three different mammals.  This thing seems to jump easy from species to species, that's a big difference between it and flus.
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All reports are saying that it will not transfer TO humans from cats & dogs.  Debbie says that's mostly driven by hopeful pet-lovers and not testing.  This would parallel our experience with deniers back in the early HIV days.

Elsewhere today, gimp posted about 2/3rds of a group of supposedly virus-free blood donors having cv19 antibodies. For all anyone really knows at this point, maybe some of them got it from their cats.