Pets and COVID-19: domestic dogs and cats and their connections to the new human coronavirus
Keywords:
COVID-19, dogs, cats, pets, epidemiologyAbstract
The Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic still raises questions in the scientific community about the source of disease contamination, and confirmation of COVID-19 as a new anthropozoonosis, which seeks to understand the role of animals in the beginning and maintainance of the pandemic cycle. Specially, dogs and cats are of greater concern because of their close, almost uninterrupted, contact with humans sharing the same environment, thus increasing their risk of exposure to the pathogen. In these animals, other strains of coronavirus are known to cause species-specific diseases, such as respiratory canine coronavirus and enteric canine coronavirus in dogs and feline coronavirus in cats. However, both can occasionally cause disease only in other species of non-human animals. Some reports of natural SARS-CoV-2 infection in dogs and cats have been published, as well as investigations into the susceptibility of these species to the virus. International human and animal health surveillance institutions have also commented on the relationship between domestic animals and COVID-19. This review intends to update the reader about SARS-CoV-2 infections in the context of dogs and cats, discussing the connections between these animals and the new human coronavirus and warning about the inappropriate and unnecessary abandonment of these animals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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