Russia has registered its first case of coronavirus cat. He caught from the sick COVID-19 master and became only the eighth animal in the world, which for all time of a pandemic confirmed new infection. The CPS stressed the virus is not transmitted from Pets to their owners, but people can infect animals. As it is now feels the cat and how owners can protect their four-legged friends?
the Cat is uncomfortable, but suffer. Tests COVID-19 in Moscow now it is possible to do and animals. A swab taken, as people, from the nose and mouth, or rather mouth. And the method is the same — PCR diagnostics. There are first positive results — five-year-old cat was infected from an infected host, and came to the vets with the cold. He currently feels well and placed under quarantine at the place of residence.
If you don’t count the couple of dogs and four tigers at the Bronx zoo (which, incidentally, is already on the mend) Moscow cat became the eighth animal in the world, who had confirmed infection.
All cats whose tests revealed a coronavirus, had typical symptoms — mostly a General malaise. After all safely recovered, not infecting any other animals or their owners.
this has already been said in the who, now and CPS confirms theoretically, animals can transmit the new virus to each other, although cases have been recorded, but humans — never.
“it is Not necessary to inflate some panic because I was like many times, when it was the same story with bird and swine flu. People have developed panic, they threw the animals on the street”, — commented the Director of the veterinary clinic Denis Sereda.
Experts insist that additional protective measures after contact with your pet does not need. Only if the person he fell ill, makes sense ogranto ICICI contacts with the pet that does not infect it.
“Charge animal care second or third parties that the cat does not become a source of infection for other animals,” advised the Professor, the research Director of the Central research Institute of epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, Aleksandr Gorelov.
Specific treatment COVID-19 in cats does not exist. They mend themselves, said a veterinarian from new York Melissa Salgado, watching the two cats with the virus:
— Cats that I treated from COVID-19, quickly returned to normal condition and quickly got rid of the minor symptoms.
there is no Treatment, but this did not prevent many vet clinics to cash in on the pandemic. Singer Natalia Gulkina gave more than a million rubles for the treatment of Mason experimental Chinese drug. Lost my head when I heard the diagnosis of pet: coronavirus. According to the artist, she had no time to argue and judge, because she wanted to save the pet. Already then it became clear: Mason is not cowed, and the usual feline coronavirus — it is quite common, and veterinarians are able to cope with it for much less.
This story is from new York. In the midst of a pandemic, the couple fell ill beloved cat. To make sure that he didn’t COVID-19, the couple gave about $ 300. In our country, the testing is almost ten times cheaper, but to accept it specialists do not recommend: the chances that your cat will be the tenth in the world are infinitesimal.
