A North Carolina family’s dog, a pug named Winston, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the first known case of a canine in the United States to have contracted the pathogen.
As CBS News reports, Winston and his family, the McLeans of Chapel Hill, are participants in the Molecular and Epidemiological Study of Suspected Infection (MESSI), a Duke University study looking at the transmission of the coronavirus in families.
Of the humans enrolled in the study, the mother, father, and son all tested positive for the virus, though none of them had symptoms. The family’s daughter did not. The other family dog did not test positive, neither did the family cat. The family’s lizard was not tested.
As for Winston, mom Heather McLean said that the pup had mild symptoms.
Son Ben postulated that his mother, a pediatrician, brought home the virus to the family. From there, Ben hypothesizes that it’s pretty easy to figure out how Winston got it.
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