After two cats in New York became the first U.S. household pets to test positive for coronavirus, the CDC suggests pet owners should apply the same social distancing measures to their pets as they do to family with whom they're living.
April 27, 2020, 3:24 PMTwo pet cats have been diagnosed with coronavirus for the first time in the U.S., as more tigers and lions test positive. ABC News' Will Ganss reports on what it means for you and your pets.After two feline friends in New York became the first U.S. household pets to test positive for the
Inside the home, it's fine to interact with pets as you normally would, ideally with frequent hand washing and good pet hygiene. But if someone in the household gets sick, the CDC says pets should be kept a safe distance from that person -- just like the human members of the family. According to the CDC, the two felines who tested positive for the coronavirus experienced mild respiratory symptoms and are expected to make a full recovery.
At a coronavirus briefing last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, emphasized that “there’s no evidence whatsoever that we’ve seen from an epidemiological standpoint that pets can be transmitters within a household.”MORE: Injecting healthy adults with live coronavirus provides moral dilemma, faster path to vaccine
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