Animal Doctors: Cats and SARS-CoV-2 Infections | Health, Medicine, Fitness

Dear readers: Cats ly infected with SARS-CoV-2 infected other cats with the virus, the researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. However, the cat showed no clinical signs of the disease.

In 2016, the H7N2 flu outbreak in New York City cat shelters revealed the public health consequences of cat-to-person transmission among animal shelter workers. Cats may be silent intermediate hosts for SARS-CoV-2, as infected cats may not show obvious symptoms that their owners can recognize.

Autopsy results show that Spanish cats who died of respiratory illness in the cats in early May tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and for coronavirus in several cases worldwide. Cats belonged to a family that tested positive for the virus, but the levels of the virus were low and there was no evidence that pets could transmit the virus to humans, says Professor Joaquim Segales of the Animal Health Research Center in Catalonia.

Therefore, if people have cats in their homes who are infected with coronavirus, vigilance and more surveillance are needed. Such cats are kept indoors and must not roam outside. So far, there is no evidence that cats carrying this coronavirus can infect people, but if allowed in the field, they may come in contact with other infected cats. ..

Dear Dr. Fox: Thank you for your valuable work. Animal cruelty is a powerful cause of illness. This abuse involves the deprivation of natural habitats.

The New York Times had two interesting articles a few weeks ago On this same topic: “Our cruelty of coronavirus-guided animals” and “animal viruses are jumping on humans. Forest loss makes it easier.”

I Older than now, and Retired. A few years ago, I couldn’t take care of my owner, so I adopted my dog. Dogs have shown to me that all animals have some human qualities and they all deserve humane treatment. I would like more people to adopt animals and see this for themselves. That may lead to a transition from eating friends to a diet composed of the blessings of the earth.

Keep up the good work — BC, Nassau, Bahamas

B.C.S.: I would greatly appreciate your comments and references to articles linking public health to our continued exploitation and consumption of other wild and domestic animals. Many consumers are now awakening to this tragic reality, reducing their intake of animal foods or switching to not eating, and understanding that a plant-based diet is the wave of the future. I will.

Some people have sent me related articles in Time Magazine. I recommend finding it online. “To prevent the next pandemic, we need to rethink our food system.”

I also appreciate what you say about the dog you adopted and what the dog taught you. It is obfuscation and denial that other animals have no emotion and suffer like us. It is proven by zoologists and other scientists that animals “have emotions.” Therefore, it is not a lie to claim that they have the ability to experience fear and anxiety, and love and security. Thus, by extension, they have the benefit and right to humane treatment, which is our collective and unitary responsibility.

Lying, denying, obfuscating, and hiding the truth are commonplace today, from the highest levels of public office to personal life. An unexamined life is a life that is not alive. We all have to find out the truth that we live and start fixing, especially with regard to the rest of the animal kingdom.

One of the truths is that many people on earth need to live on a meat-based diet that has been recorded on Earth as a major cause of climate change, habitat loss and species extinction. Is that I affirm the current COVID-19 pandemic. This truth is unavoidable, but has been denied by vested interests, including those who believe that animals were created for human use.

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