It appears that while humans can pass the coronavirus on to cats, experts agree that getting coronavirus from a cat is extremely unlikely.
Seven tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo in New York developed dry coughs and other symptoms of coronavirus after being exposed to a zookeeper"asymptomatically infected with the virus," according to a press release from the zoo on Sunday.Your pet won't give you coronavirus, so hug away, experts sayThis follows a report that a Belgian woman with Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, infected her pet cat in early March.
Experts say it's not surprising that exotic cats can develop Covid-19, also called SARS-CoV-2. Dr. John Williams, chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, has studied coronviruses for decades. He said that tigers also caught SARS-CoV, the related coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome , during the outbreak from 2002 to 2004.
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