Posted on 03/20/2020 7:02:30 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
A second dog has tested positive for coronavirus in Hong Kong days after the first to contract the disease died. A German shepherd living in the Pok Fu Lam area on Hong Kong Island was sent to quarantine along with another mixed-breed dog from the same residence.
It happened on Thursday after their owner was confirmed as being infected, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said in a statement. The mixed breed dog did not test positive for the virus and neither dog wwas showing any symptoms. The department added that it will continue to monitor both dogs and conduct repeated tests on the animals.
The Hong Kong government has since urged people not to abandon their pets and to stop kissing them. However they stressed that there is currently no evidence that pets can be a source of the virus or that they can get ill from it.
They also added that owners should not use the virus outbreak as a reason to abandon their pets. It comes after the pet dog of a coronavirus patient - also in Hong Kong - was the first to be confirmed as infected with the disease, in a likely case of human-to-animal transmission. The canine - who died two days after being released from quarantine - had repeatedly tested 'weak positive' for the new coronavirus and it was quarantined at an animal centre.
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If Hillary and Pelosi get it, then I know it was sent by God.
yea in case you didn’t know, this most likely orginated from animals in China’s wet market. Oh I know the loon element here at FR want it to be an intentional lab created virus released, but China’s wet market, in which they also sell DOGS to eat, has be the genesis of a few viruses.
Guy ate a bowl of bat soup, caught a disease that every living thing on earth that has lungs can now get and die from.
I believe that. Sound perfectly plausible. They didn’t make this crap in a lab at all.
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has been** the genesis.
Yeah, I believe that.
Not.
Was the dog promptly sold in a Wet Market?
More evidence that it’s a bioweapon? America is nuts about pets.
In before the National Lampoon pic of dog having revolver to his head.
I thought the World Health Organization said dogs were not carriers. In effect, WHO let the dogs out?
They’ll be coming for our dogs next.
Dude, please stop.
was the origin of bubonic plague a lie too? That stemmed from fleas on rodents and also came out of Asia and spread through Europe.
Well they are female dogs.
the dog that died (for unknown reasons, no autopsy allowed) was 17 years old.
that said, how many pets have been tested from positive households? I would think a relative handful.
what stops an infected dog from passing it to humans?
they will need to figure out what it actually does in a dog.
terrible.
Anyone comes near my two dogs is going to die.
Daily mail pumping out fake stories..
Interesting. A week or so ago, WHO specifically said dogs could not get this disease.
I dunno, I wasn’t there. Why is China accusing us of releasing CV there?
Could be a big problem, if it can jump species it may
mutate and cross back more virulent.
Note: I am not a biologist.
the dog that died (for unknown reasons, no autopsy allowed) was 17 years old.
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Okay thanks, end of this story.
Media love this virus is good business. Might as well scream loud about dogs getting it...even with ZERO proof.
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