Belgium Confirms Case of COVID-19 Transmission From Human to Cat – National Centre

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Source: https://sputniknews.com/europe/20200...tional-centre/

Belgium Confirms Case of COVID-19 Transmission From Human to Cat – National Centre
12:14 GMT 27.03.2020Get short URL

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - Laboratory staff in Belgium have confirmed a case of COVID-19 transmission from human to animal, after a man who contracted the disease also infected his pet cat, a representative of the country's coronavirus reference laboratory confirmed on Friday...

...Andre emphasized that this was an individual case and may not be a common occurrence...

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Woman passes on coronavirus to her pet CAT: Belgium's public health body says vets found infection a week after owner came down with it

• A Belgian virologist said a coronavirus infection 'has been determined in a cat'
• He said it was an 'isolated case' and that the virus had spread from person to cat
• It is the third known infected pet after two dogs caught the virus in Hong Kong

......Officials did not identify the woman but said that she came from the Belgian city of Liege in the French-speaking part of the country.

Van Gucht added: 'The cat had diarrhoea, kept vomiting and had breathing difficulties. The researchers found the virus in the cat's faeces.

'We want to stress that this is an isolated case. Additionally, in this case, we are talking about a human-to-animal transmission, not the other way around.

'There are no indications that this is common. The risk of animal-to-human transmission, is very small.'

Updated advice from Belgian health authorities said the infected cat had 'transient respiratory and digestive disorders'.
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je recherche le lien, sur le forum, concernant les animaux, surtout maintenant que l'on sait que des membres de l'entreprise Smithfield sont positifs. Cela me semble pouvoir concernenr autre chose que des chats ... La sous question est: qui dispose de moyen de diagnostic, pays par pays, comme, d?j? les tests pour humain sont tr?s loin d'?tre suffisant ?

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vu la fermeture d'Olymel: https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/03/...-de-yamachiche
3 strat?gies cl?s pour les ?levages de porcs ? l'?poque de Covid-19
https://www.pigprogress.net/Health/A...n=pig_progress
concernant le chat :

Le SRAS-CoV-2 semble avoir un RBD qui se lie avec une affinit? ?lev?e ? l'ACE2 des humains, des furets, des chats et d'autres esp?ces avec une homologie ?lev?e des r?cepteurs ⁷ .

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9