An Arizona man infected his dog and cat with COVID, according to a new case study that researchers say is the first in the United States to use genetics to document such transmission.
, according to a new case study that researchers say is the first in the United States to use genetics to document such transmission.
They explained that the pets were confined to an apartment and had little or no opportunity to be exposed to the virus independently, so it's highly unlikely that they infected their owner. Also, it was the pets' human who exhibited COVID symptoms first. "This case study was the first example we had from the project that demonstrated the likelihood of virus transmission from a pet owner to animals in the household," said report author Hayley Yaglom, an epidemiologist at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Flagstaff, Ariz.
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