{"id":7088,"date":"2020-05-26T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:03:04","slug":"rising-evidence-of-covid-19-transmission-potential-to-and-between-animals-do-we-need-to-be-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/26\/rising-evidence-of-covid-19-transmission-potential-to-and-between-animals-do-we-need-to-be-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Evidence of COVID-19 Transmission Potential to and between Animals Do We Need to Be Concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"39\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">pre-print, not peer reviewed<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">While there is no evidence to suggest household pets can infect humans with COVID-19, there is mounting evidence that transmission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from humans to pets<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0occurs.\u00a0 Across\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">17 case reports on confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in animals as of May 15, all but two animals had recovered fully and had only mild respiratory or digestive symptoms. Data from probable cat-to-cat transmission in Wuhan, China estimated the R<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to be 1.09 (95% CI 1.05, 1.13); this is much lower than the value for humans, suggesting transmission from cats is less import<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ant than that from humans.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Akhmetzhanov\u00a0et al. (May 25, 2020). Rising Evidence of COVID-19 Transmission Potential to and between Animals Do We Need to Be Concerned.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 26 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.21.20109041\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.21.20109041<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0While there is no evidence to suggest household pets can infect humans with COVID-19, there is mounting evidence that transmission\u00a0from humans to pets\u00a0occurs.\u00a0 Across\u00a017 case reports on confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in animals as of May 15, all but two animals had recovered fully and had only mild respiratory or digestive symptoms. Data&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/26\/rising-evidence-of-covid-19-transmission-potential-to-and-between-animals-do-we-need-to-be-concerned\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7089,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions\/7089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7088"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}