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COVID-19: First Dog Tests Positive Shortly After Cases Confirmed In Cats by Horus(m): 10:26am On May 03, 2020
COVID-19: First Dog Tests Positive Shortly After Cases Confirmed In Cats

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to prove that it doesn’t discriminate when choosing its victims.

A pug in North Carolina has tested positive for COVID-19, which is believed to be the first confirmed case for a dog in the United States. There have also been confirmed cases of pet cats, as well as tigers and lions in the Bronx Zoo contracting the virus.

The dog was part of a Duke University study that tested an entire family for the virus. The pug, Winston, joined the family’s mother, father, and son as having confirmed cases. A daughter, as well as a second dog, and a cat all tested negative for COVID-19.

“Pugs are a little unusual in that they cough and sneeze in a very strange way,” Heather McLean, the mother and a professor of pediatrics at Duke said to WRAL in Raleigh. “So it almost seems like he was gagging, and there was one day when he didn’t want to eat his breakfast, and if you know pugs, you know they love to eat, so that seemed very unusual.”

The CDC said that due to the low number of COVID-19 cases in household pets, routine testing of animals has not been recommended, though state and federal health officials are making new determinations about whether an animal should be tested.

CDC guidelines on pets say “there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading the virus that causes COVID-19,” but recommends you treat them “as you would other human family members.”

“Do not let pets interact with people or animals outside the household. If a person inside the household becomes sick, isolate that person from everyone else, including pets.”

"To our knowledge, this is the first instance in which the virus has been detected in a dog. Little additional information is known at this time as we work to learn more about the exposure," MESSI principal investigator Dr. Chris Woods said in a statement.

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Re: COVID-19: First Dog Tests Positive Shortly After Cases Confirmed In Cats by yanabasee1(m): 10:30am On May 03, 2020
Dogs and cats sneeze right?


So, how will they wear them facemask? and how will these animals be isolated? What if other animals have contracted the virus? such as fowls, house rats, kitchen rat, tse tse fly, cockroach, etc??
Re: COVID-19: First Dog Tests Positive Shortly After Cases Confirmed In Cats by Nobody: 10:30am On May 03, 2020
Serious. And dogs can wander about for Africa. Are they going to create quarantine centers for them too?
Re: COVID-19: First Dog Tests Positive Shortly After Cases Confirmed In Cats by Anigreat: 10:34am On May 03, 2020
PLEASE HELP A BROTHER , I'M SO HUNGRY I'M BEGGING YOU IN NAME OF GOD.
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Re: COVID-19: First Dog Tests Positive Shortly After Cases Confirmed In Cats by Horus(m): 11:04am On May 03, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv184CsmBok

First dog tests positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) in United States

For the first time, a dog in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19), and experts now
believe the virus can spread from people to pets.
Re: COVID-19: First Dog Tests Positive Shortly After Cases Confirmed In Cats by Rabbitcartel: 12:44pm On May 03, 2020
Abegi.. over 200k deaths or so worldwide but na now d 1st case of dog appear.. soo none of the 1million infected people had dogs abi.. let me drink my cafe casablanca in peace biko..

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