Posted on 03/28/2020 7:55:31 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A Belgian woman from the Liège province has infected her cat with the coronavirus, reported the FPS Public Health during the daily update press conference about the new coronavirus (Covid-19).
“The veterinary medicine faculty in Liège reported that a coronavirus infection has been determined in a cat. The cat lived with her owner, who started showing symptoms of the virus a week before the cat did,” said professor Steven Van Gucht.
The animal lived in close contact with its owner, and started showing symptoms a week after the woman did. “The cat had diarrhoea, kept vomiting and had breathing difficulties. The researchers found the virus in the cat’s faeces,” he added. They did not say whether the cat was still alive.
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LOL!
ROFLMAO
“Coronavirus: Belgian woman infected her cat”
I’ve never thought much of the Belgians, and this doesn’t help.
>>>> The cat was showing symptoms and had a known exposure. Hence, it was tested.
The cat’s symptom was due to other illness, not consistent with Covid-19 in human. The only thing in this story is because the owner tested positive for coronavirus.
The positive fecal test showing virus showed that cats most likely asymptomatic but did not prove corona virus particles in the cat would/could reinfect other human (i.e. jumping from species to different species).
All it does is to create massive panic amongst the human populace that cats are virus carriers. Like the couple self-ingesting fish tank cleaner to prevent contracting the disease.
There, you happy now?
Nevertheless, it is strongly recommended to keep applying the classic hygiene rules (avoid close contact with your animal, especially if you are sick, wash your hands after touching an animal, do not let the animal lick your face). This is on the one hand to prevent that you would transmit the virus to your pet and to prevent your pet from becoming a carrier and elimination of the virus as a result of an environmental contamination.
Many animals manifest symptoms in other parts of the body than humans. Coronaviruses primarily cause respiratory illness in humans, but that doesn’t automatically mean it will be a respiratory illness in other animals.
FIP, the well-known coronavirus that infects cats is primarily an intestinal disease that can get into the lungs. I wouldn’t be surprised if Covid-19 affects cats similarly.
Similarly, influenza in birds is primarily an intestinal disease passed through feces. Yet influenza is almost always a respiratory disease in humans.
Interesting. I think I’ve actually seen them grooming themselves too.
As a single man with cat allergies, this may end up doubling my universe of potential mates once the women get rid of their arrogant pestilential pets!
Well yeah if we survive this.
Less men around to compete and fewer cats too!
The corona virus causing FIP was previously known, existed for years in wild and domestic cats. And more importantly it didn't cause the current Covid-19 in human.
So the owner tested positive for Covid-19, her cat exhibited FIP symptoms, and the vet tested and found corona virus in cat feces, so what? It still does not prove anything to be worthy of a 'news story'.
When it warms up we’ll hear about a panic from mosquito bites.
Well, if they can carry and transmit the Chinese WMD, it will be a problem.
The Covid-19 virus shows a lot of sequence homology to a bat coronavirus. I would argue that the virus is not humanized yet, because as microorganisms humanize, they become less virulent. It is not conducive to pathogen survival to kill its host.
Shit just got real.
No!
Not a kitty ...
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