To: FITZ
Hey, hey, hey, cool down.
I've check with the vets. They say that coronavirus existed in feline, swine, etc. all along. They are mild and not that contagious. On cats, it cause a common cold and on pigs, it cause enteritis. And, they have treatment as well as vaccines for that.
The coronavirus we are facing now is a mutated virus from that family. If the virus can jump from animals to human, it would happen years ago. So, don't go and kill your cat.
Stay safe.
92 posted on
04/26/2003 9:38:55 AM PDT by
FreepForever
(China is the hub of all evil)
To: FreepForever
I'm in no panic ---I'm not thinking about dying or anything ---but I don't believe quarantining humans is necessarily the answer ---it might be a futile waste of time. Sometimes a virus that isn't too deadly in it's natural host --like a bird ---becomes deadly if it jumps species. I'm not even going to kill my birds much less my cat.
94 posted on
04/26/2003 9:48:10 AM PDT by
FITZ
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