Canine/Feline Coronavirus

[HockeyMom]

I came about numerous Google listings by chance with this from years ago. Too many to link. Apparently, the term coronavirus was not a recent invention, but comes from a disease which infects domestic dogs and cats.

Two different strains; one intestinal and the other respiratory. There are vaccines available today for both dogs and cats. The respiratory strain seem to be what is happening with humans. Did it jump from dogs and cats to humans? This virus today is now being labeled with Capital Letters and Numbers same as those for Swine and Avian Influenza strains are today. Just imagine calling this Dog and Cat Flu!!!! Want PANIC?

As I Googled further on this I came up with You Tube Video from China of Dogs and Cats being thrown from the tops of buildings to their deaths. Never watched that. Also saw images of dogs wearing masks out in public in China

Bottom line, if there is a canine and feline vaccine for coronavirus, there cannot be a human one as well? Killing your PETS is not the answer.

[in2herbs]

1. The other night our local news reported on a horse with the virus, although they said it was

a different corona virus than people get. This is in Maricopa County AZ.

[Iliyah]

2. That's interesting . . .

[TwilightZone]

3. They're not the same thing.

Coronaviruses are a variety of different viruses, not mutations or strains of one particular virus. What works to fight one doesn't necessarily work with others.

Start here:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/general-information.html

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html

See COVID-19 and Animals here:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html/

[Kali]

6. thanks for posting

worse than disease outbreaks are the ignorance pandemics.

[hlthe2b]

4. NO... It most certainly did not. Coronavirus is a large FAMILY of viruses common throughout world.

COVID-19 is a newly emergent genetically distinct virus while the common coronaviruses that infect dogs and cats have been around for many many decades and are not transmitted to humans. To date, there is no evidence this newly emerged strain of humans can infect dogs or cats and likely can not, given how genetically divergent they are to those strains that DO.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. There are many, many different strains of coronaviruses.

So far they haven't determined where this one came from.

[Ilsa]

7. One of my dogs has been sick recently

She's on the mend now, but she stopped eating, had a fever, and had bloody wet stools. The vet referred to her as having small stomach ulcers from the virus that infected her. She's older, so it's scarier.

[Midnight Writer]

9. I hope she recovers well.

[Coleman]

8. Huh?

Coronavirus is a class of virus. It includes flu and ebola. Corona virus easily mutate, this is why you have to get a new vaxination. It is a virus that is common mostly in mammals where it can jump to humans. It is currently thought the current variation came from bats. The possibility of a vaccine depends upon the rate of mutation not on whether there is a vaccine or not for dogs and cats.

[mrs_p]

11. Most coronaviruses

Don’t jump the species barrier. The scary ones - SARS and MERS and now this one - are the exceptions.

There are many coronaviruses I am exposed to daily from mammals (vet pathologist here) that I am at no risk of getting.

[mrs_p]

10. Veterinarian here

Pathology specialty with another doctorate in molecular virology. There are many, many corona viruses that are usually species specific. This is not unusual for many of the viruses we humans have - influenza, coronavirus, herpesvirus. The molecular make up is usually different for each virus. Cows also have a respiratory and enteric coronavirus, and ferrets can actually get a systemic coronavirus. A mutated coronavirus is associated with feline infectious peritonitis.

This novel virus has capital letters just to delineate the strain. It’s not like influenza which is capitalized based on the two main proteins on the surface of the virus.

Please don’t panic. And, of course, don’t kill cats and dogs!!!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

12. If I saw someone tossing

Cats to thier deaths, I'd throw that vile human off the roof and would not care. I hate animal abuse.