Reports that a veterinary surgeon in Thailand likely got COVID-19 from a cat have many asking: Can you get COVID from your cat?
cats were found to give COVID to other cats, and there have been various reports of the virus passing between animals and humans, not the least among them the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans., “a veterinarian in Thailand was diagnosed with COVID-19 after being sneezed on by an infected cat owned by an infected patient. Genetic study supported the hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from the owner to the cat, and then from the cat to the veterinarian.
Cat-to-human transmission may have happened before, she says, but it just hasn’t been proven as such.In the Thailand case, the discovery of cat-to-human transmission came about by accident, according to theLast August, a father and son who had tested positive for coronavirus were moved to an isolation ward in a hospital in southern Thailand. Their cat was also swabbed and tested positive.
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