Household cats acquired the same COVID-19 variants as their owners throughout the pandemic, according to new research. The study, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases and led by the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) – where scientists first detected human-to-cat COVID-19 transmission in April 2021 – found a retrospective association between the dominant SARS-CoV-2 variant observed in cats and the timeline of variant emergence in the human population. The scientists – looking at retrospective samples to assess the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in UK cats from April 2020 to February 2022 – were able to detect cats that had
Cats & Covid as seen on The Hippocratic Post.