The following report is from Study Finds:
Pet owners who test positive for COVID-19 should avoid contact with their furry friends, according to a new study. Around a third of dogs and 40 percent of cats carried the virus after spending time with their infected owners.
Researchers say the pets only presented mild symptoms, if any at all, but may still pass on the potentially deadly bug. In the study, some pets carried the virus for as long as 51 days after their owners tested positive. The study was carried out with 29 dogs and ten cats in Rio.
This study demonstrated the presence and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in different biological samples of dogs and cats that lived in the same residence of SARS-CoV-2 infected owners. The results presented here suggest that people diagnosed with COVID-19 should avoid direct contact with their pets for as long as they remain ill.
The authors write in their paper, published in PLOS One.
Dr. Calvet is one of the researchers who conducted the study. Between May and October of 2020, he and his fellow researchers tested 39 pets — 29 dogs and ten cats — belonging to 21 COVID-19 patients. Nine dogs (31 percent) and four cats (40 percent) from ten out of the 21 households were infected.
Animals tested positive from eleven to 51 days after COVID-19 symptoms began in their owners. Three dogs tested positive twice 14, 30, and 31 days apart. Antibodies were detected in one dog (3.4 percent of the group) and two cats (20 percent). Six out of 13 animals that tested positive developed mild but reversible signs of the disease. Pets who were neutered as well as those that shared a bed with the ill owner were statistically associated with pet infection.
The investigation of the clinical signs associated with the infection and the analysis of the laboratory data of these animals suggests that pets may present from an absence of clinical signs to unspecified and mild transient respiratory and gastrointestinal manifestations, without significantly associated laboratory abnormalities. Further longitudinal studies must be carried out to confirm these findings.
The authors write.
A previous study suggested the virus is 96 percent similar to a virus found in bats, leading researchers to believe the coronavirus originated in the species before transferring to humans. Recent research revealed it may be possible the virus could be contracted by minks, which could go on to infect humans.
It is believed that SARS-CoV-2 was originated in wild animals and, later, transmitted to humans. However, the intermediate hosts that caused the transmission to humans are still unknown. The investigation of intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-2 can help to understand the dynamics of COVID-19 and to evaluate the possibility of zoonotic transmission. The infection of animals with the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have implications for animal health and welfare, wildlife conservation, and biomedical research. Studies have shown that some wildlife and domestic animals can be naturally or experimentally infected with SARS-CoV-2.
However, acute infection in cats or dogs has been less reported. Few studies have demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 infection in dogs and cats is mostly detected in animals living in households with at least one SARS-CoV-2-infected human, suggesting that the transmission may have occurred from humans to pets. It is not yet known how often this infection occurs, as well as whether animals develop clinical signs and whether there is a zoonotic and animal transmission of this virus under natural conditions.
SWNS writer William Janes contributed to this report.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs 10:14
This propaganda and nonsense is nothing new to regulars of The WinePress, but, I mention this because it is still important to understand where the narrative is shifting. For some time now, the media and “researchers” have been sounding the alarm on the threat of Covid being “zoonotic.” I believe this is where it will go next, one of the directions anyways.
It would be a way for the media and government to “justify” the mass culling of livestock and wild creatures like deer, or to somehow vaccinate them like they have floated out to the masses.
Bird Flu Has Now Come To America And Hundreds Of Thousands Chickens And Turkeys Are Infected
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.1 Timothy 4:1-3
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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This is really crossing over into extreme woo clown world! In just a couple years, these demons have turned so many people into mask addicted hypochondriacs! They got our children and now they’re coming for our pets! SICK FREEX