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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on April 04, 2020, 02:49:28 PM

Title: About 15% of cats in Wuhan infected with novel coronavirus, researchers say
Post by: rcjordan on April 04, 2020, 02:49:28 PM

https://tass.com/world/1139957

Title: Re: About 15% of cats in Wuhan infected with novel coronavirus, researchers say
Post by: littleman on April 04, 2020, 05:42:59 PM

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.

Title: Re: About 15% of cats in Wuhan infected with novel coronavirus, researchers say
Post by: rcjordan on April 04, 2020, 06:00:42 PM

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 2/3^rds 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.