The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is now recommending that pet owners practice social distancing when it comes to animals, after cats began testing positive for coronavirus, ABC News reports.
Since the coronavirus pandemic first emerged, it’s been suspected, but not proven, that the virus can be transmitted between nonhuman animals (that is, to each other), and back and forth between humans and pets. Cats are particularly susceptible to being carriers of the virus, as Nature reported in early April, while the virus seems to completely spare dogs.
Now, however, two cases out of New York have changed the thinking about the risk of household pets spreading the virus to humans and/or to each other.
Specifically, two cats in the state have tested positive for the coronavirus. The two animals experienced mild respiratory symptoms and are expected to make a full recovery.
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