I keep saying I’m going to stop talking about sporadic new SARS-CoV-2 infections in animals unless there’s something noteworthy. I’ll mention some recent cases in a dog and some cats in the Netherlands because I think there are some unique aspects that fit that bill.
Infected dog
This infected dog was euthanized on account of
Nothing too remarkable to report, but here are a few recent developments.
Dogs
Details about the first two SARS-CoV-2-positive dogs in Hong Kong have been published in Nature. We’ve previously heard most of the information before, but here’s a quick summary:
We’ll put this in the “interesting but not really surprising” file.
When you have people with COVID-19 and they have contact with animals, there’s some risk of infecting the animals. The risk varies by animal species, but this virus seems to have the ability to infect a few different species beyond our own.
