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Texas A&M Research Project Identifies First COVID-19 Positive Cats In Texas
TAMU Edu ^ | 08 06 2020 | Jennifer Gauntt

Posted on 08/06/2020 9:02:27 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The transmission of COVID-19 to pets has been the source of much discussion within the scientific community.

While reports have confirmed a small, but growing, list of positive cases among companion animals and exotic cats in the United States, new Texas A&M University research efforts are beginning to shed additional light on the topic.

In further exploring the degree to which pets are infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, a team led by Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) associate professor of epidemiology Dr. Sarah Hamer is seeing evidence that pets living in “high-risk” households with people who have COVID-19 in Brazos County and the surrounding areas may also become infected with this virus. Brazos County includes Bryan-College Station and is home to Texas A&M University.

“We’re one of a few veterinary research groups across the country that are conducting similar investigations to provide an enhanced understanding about SARS-CoV-2 infections in pets — asking questions such as, are pets being exposed? Becoming infected? Can they spread the virus to humans or other animals? Do they get sick?” Hamer said. “It’s really exciting that research teams are beginning to respond to the crisis in this way.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cats; covid
Cats.
1 posted on 08/06/2020 9:02:27 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m sure their $600 check will be in the mail post haste!


2 posted on 08/06/2020 9:06:25 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Pox
I’m sure their $600 check will be in the mail post haste!

I still haven't come to terms with feline AIDS.

3 posted on 08/06/2020 9:08:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

MEOW! We just got a kitten two months ago from our grandson’s girlfriend, he constantly puked and coughed...and now he’s okay. Wonder if he was a covid cat?


4 posted on 08/06/2020 9:09:40 PM PDT by ValleyofHope
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To: yesthatjallen

Leave it to the Aggies. If you get covid from a cat,do you cough up hairballs?


5 posted on 08/06/2020 9:25:28 PM PDT by SanchoP (We're passed the biological softening up and beginning the open warfare strategy. WAKE UP!!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh noes this is a CATastrophy well Someone had to say it


6 posted on 08/06/2020 9:34:41 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, if a papaya can test positive for Covid-19, I suppose a Cat-Can-Too.

Cat ladies and minorities most affected.


7 posted on 08/06/2020 11:11:03 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: yesthatjallen

Guess all the cats will have to ware masks too!


8 posted on 08/07/2020 12:15:09 AM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: yesthatjallen

actually, a Brit teaching in the city where the Chinese flu began wrote that his kitten died while he was ill.


9 posted on 08/07/2020 12:17:56 AM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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It’s the Chuck Norris of viruses.

It can jump through a mask onto a sidewalk where it can live for 17 days in full sunlight and 95 degree heat before leaping 5 feet 11 inches into my cat, causing his kidneys to explode.

That’s what the press coverage seems to say anyhow.


10 posted on 08/07/2020 5:56:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Herakles

Cats are susceptible to all kinds of respiratory ailments.


11 posted on 08/07/2020 5:56:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: yesthatjallen
"I still haven't come to terms with feline AIDS."

If you've ever tried giving a pill to a cat, just wait 'til you try putting a condom on one.

12 posted on 08/07/2020 5:59:26 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: ResponseAbility

Cat Box Humor,,
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We are Better
Than That.
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13 posted on 08/07/2020 7:07:43 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (TRUMP vs Biden-----------Any Question?)
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