Coronavirus In Cats And Dogs

Covid-19 is an illness caused by a strain called SARS-CoV-2.

Coronavirus in cats and dogs. In some species these symptoms present as respiratory disease and in others diarrhea and gastrointestinal upset. Canine coronavirus disease known as CCoV is a highly infectious intestinal infection in dogs especially puppies. 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.

Many of the pets also tested positive for coronavirus. Cats and dogs can also be affected by their specific Coronavirus the Canine Enteric Coronavirus CCoV for example which belongs to Alphacoronavirus genera and causes mild enteritis in dogs infecting cells in the intestine says Hervé. The common cold in humans kennel cough in dogs and feline infectious peritonitis FIP in cats are all examples of illnesses caused by coronavirus.

Some strains affect animals some affect humans and some can affect both. According to the US. However Julia Hollingsworth of CNN says that current evidence indicates that pet animals are unlikely to be sick from the virus even if they do get infected.

Six cats and seven dogs returned a positive PCR result while 54. Dogs are susceptible to two coronaviruses. A small number of pets worldwide including cats and dogs have been reported external icon to be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 mostly after close contact with people with COVID-19.

Nearly 70 percent of pet cats and more than 40 percent of pet dogs tested positive for antibodies compared with just under 10 percent of dogs and cats. 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. Canine coronavirus CCoV is not the same virus as SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19.

These known viruses come from a large family of viruses coronaviruses that cause symptoms much like the common cold and. SARS-CoV-2 the virus responsible for COVID-19 originated from wild animals likely bats in China. However unlike previously documented Sars-CoV-2 infections in cats and dogs the animals referred to the RVRC had no other respiratory.