{"id":43644,"date":"2022-08-03T07:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T07:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=43644"},"modified":"2022-08-04T08:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:26:46","slug":"case-report-of-covid-19-transmission-from-sneezing-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/43644","title":{"rendered":"Case report of COVID-19 transmission from sneezing cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"HTBsubhead2articletitle\"><strong>Kirk Taylor, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-graphic.png\" width=\"231\" height=\"142\" \/><\/span>Please, no laughing, this is not funny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">Researchers report the unfortunate case of a young vet in Taiwan who caught COVID-19 after being sneezed on by one of their less considerate feline clients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">The hypothesis is supported by genome analysis and the paper is available as an open access article online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">comment<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Such transmission events are rare, but this case report provides evidence that domestic pets can serve as an additional source of COVID-19. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">COVID-19 has been detected in multiple animal species, including cats, dogs, tigers, lions and mink. Combined with evidence for reverse zoonoses (human-to-animal transmission), it is important to consider additional zoonotic transmission routes. These events are rare, and cats appear to have shorter infectious periods, shedding lower levels of virus overall. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\">Ref: <span lang=\"EN-US\">Sila, T.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0Suspected Cat-to-Human Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Thailand, July-September 2021 <\/span>Emerg Infect Dis . 2022 Jul;28(7):1485-1488.\u00a0 doi: 10.3201\/eid2807.212605.\u00a0 Epub 2022 Jun 6.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9239874\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9239874<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Taylor, HIV i-Base Please, no laughing, this is not funny. Researchers report the unfortunate case of a young vet in Taiwan who caught COVID-19 after being sneezed on by one of their less considerate feline clients. The hypothesis is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,289,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunistic-infections-coinfections-and-complications","category-covid-19-transmission","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}