Can dogs, cats and other pets contract COVID-19?
However, because the risk for pets spreading the virus to humans is low, health officials said necessary veterinary care for COVID-positive animals should not be withheld.
Arwady explained, though, that health officials would want to see that COVID infections were"serious" in animals or that pets were playing a large role in making humans seriously ill. Some animals have already been vaccinated against COVID, Arwady noted, although most of those cases were in zoo settings.
"For me, the concern about seeing COVID not just in dogs and cats but in animals in general, it tells us that there's what we call an 'animal reservoir for COVID-19' and that means that it's one of the most important things that makes it very unlikely that we would ever eradicate completely -- get rid of COVID. Because as long as there are animals that are able to have it, there are, you know, that remains a risk," Arwady said.
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