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Niagara-area dog tests positive for COVID-19\u00a0 …but most pets are still safe<\/p>\n
A dog in Ontario\u2019s Niagara Region has tested positive for Positive tests for novel coronavirus in dogs are rare because they are typically asymptomatic and they get over the ailment quickly.<\/p>\n Scott Weese, the chief of infection control at the University of Guelph\u2019s Ontario Veterinary College, is part of a study that found the positive case in the Niagara area. He said that any household where a person has COVID-19 should include their pets in the quarantine as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n \u201cYour dog is less likely to be infected than the people in your household, but it\u2019s possible and we don\u2019t want to create the chance that your dog can pass it on,\u201d said Weese on Monday morning.<\/p>\n He also noted that pet owners should not be worried about their animals falling ill.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a human virus,\u201d said Weese. \u201cIt likes people and there are some animal species that can be effected but that\u2019s a spillover.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got probably not uncommon human-to-dog infection but the dogs rarely, if ever, get sick.\u201d<\/p>\n Other animals, like non-human primates and minks, are much more susceptible to the virus than Weese said that of approximately 40 pets tested in the study only the dog has been confirmed as having the virus. A cat in the study had some lingering antibodies from COVID-19, suggesting it had once been sick.<\/p>\n Testing animals for the study has been difficult logistically. The household first has to discover that a person has COVID-19, then contact the researchers to have their pets checked, and then the test has to be administered within the relatively small window that the animal may be sick.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re looking at a few different aspects of (COVID-19) like how it\u2019s moving and if it\u2019s moving between people and animals,\u201d said Weese. The antibody testing \u2014 after the virus has passed \u2014 is usually how it\u2019s confirmed an animal had the coronavirus, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt looks like it\u2019s probably not that uncommon for people to spread it to their pets and for the pets to not have any consequences from it.\u201d<\/p>\n This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 26, 2020.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\ud83d\ude4b\u200d\u2640\ufe0f #bonniesden #wolfdoguk #officialwolfdog Niagara-area dog tests positive for COVID-19\u00a0 …but most pets are still safe A dog in Ontario\u2019s Niagara Region has tested positive for COVID-19, although researchers say most pet owners shouldn\u2019t be worried. Positive tests for novel coronavirus in dogs are rare because they are typically asymptomatic and they get over the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[145,155,2],"tags":[156,149],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-pet-news","category-pet-health","category-pet-news","tag-covid-19","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bonniesden.com\/frenchie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/amazon-001-e1604324529486.jpg\")
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