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Study confirms cats can become infected with and may transmit COVID-19 to other cats:
Professor of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine Yoshihiro Kawaoka led the study, in which researchers administered to three cats SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a human patient. The following day, the researchers swabbed the nasal passages of the cats and were able to detect the virus in two of the animals. Within three days, they detected the virus in all of the cats.
The day after the researchers administered virus to the first three cats, they placed another cat in each of their cages. Researchers did not administer SARS-CoV-2 virus to these cats.
Each day, the researchers took nasal and rectal swabs from all six cats to assess them for the presence of the virus. Within two days, one of the previously uninfected cats was shedding virus, detected in the nasal swab, and within six days, all of the cats were shedding virus. None of the rectal swabs contained virus.
Each cat shed SARS-CoV-2 from their nasal passages for up to six days. The virus was not lethal and none of the cats showed signs of illness. All of the cats ultimately cleared the virus.
"That was a major finding for us -- the cats did not have symptoms," says Kawaoka, who also holds a faculty appointment at the University of Tokyo. Kawaoka is also helping lead an effort to create a human COVID-19 vaccine called CoroFlu.
Peter J. Halfmann, Masato Hatta, Shiho Chiba, Tadashi Maemura, Shufang Fan, Makoto Takeda, Noriko Kinoshita, Shin-ichiro Hattori, Yuko Sakai-Tagawa, Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto, Masaki Imai, Yoshihiro Kawaoka. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Domestic Cats. New England Journal of Medicine, 2020; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2013400
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 15 2020, @03:00PM (11 children)
You two need to learn what the Troll mod means. It does not mean "I don't like the facts you just stated".
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @03:16PM (2 children)
Certainly Sir. Only thing, it is not so clear whom you are addressing. Is it the two cats or your balls?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 15 2020, @03:21PM (1 child)
If it's not clear, I wasn't addressing you. And what I say to my balls is between them and myself.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @03:24PM
An eye to eye talk eh?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @03:55PM (4 children)
Says the self professed troll giving an anecdote from the very beginning of the pandemic to suggest a dangerous course of action. How do you expect people to parse your trolling from your stupidity? Perhaps you should be glad they thought you were trolling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @05:53PM
Welcome to the real world: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ [statista.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 15 2020, @09:29PM (2 children)
I didn't suggest squat, just laid out the facts. Anything you read into it is the fault of your own brain being used accidentally.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2020, @03:26AM (1 child)
TMB paraphrasing: We didn't do anything to protect ourselves and everything was fine.
As usual you copy Trump in every way possible. I kinda wanna know whether you realize the shit you say, or if you say it without the slightest clue. Won't get the truth out of you either way, your ego can't afford you looking weak.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 16 2020, @10:25AM
Everything I stated was the literal truth. Funny thing about reality, it doesn't care if you like the message or the person delivering it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday May 15 2020, @06:01PM (1 child)
An Anecdote is really not facts, nor are you living in a controlled study.
As a side note, how far are you from a Tennessee state prison? Do you know any one who works on the staff in said prison?
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 15 2020, @09:31PM
They're facts, just not controlled, double blind, experimental data. I never claimed otherwise.
Not a clue and no.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @06:47PM
Troll mods seem to happen on almost every coronavirus story when anyone suggests that people do anything even slightly less than panic to the maximum forever.