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Covid transmission 'common' in pet cats and dogs
By Jim Reed
Health reporter
4 hours ago
Covid is common in pet cats and dogs whose owners have the disease, research suggests. Swabs were taken from 310 pets in 196 households where a human infection had been detected. Six cats and seven dogs returned a positive PCR result, while 54 animals tested positive for virus antibodies.
"If you have Covid, you should avoid contact with your cat or dog, just as you would do with other people," Dr Els Broens, from Utrecht University, said. "The main concern is not the animals' health but the potential risk that pets could act as a reservoir of the virus and reintroduce it into the human population."
The authors of the study said no evidence of pet-to-owner transmission had been recorded to date but it would be difficult to detect while the virus was still spreading easily between humans.
Most infected pets tend to be asymptomatic or display mild Covid symptoms.
Much more at the link:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57666245.amp
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Thanks for sharing this, appalachiablue.
Maybe if enough of us post about it folks will heed the warning. I posted about it earlier today and the post continues to get the most disappointing replies. The other thing is that how many are of the "kill the messenger" variety. I thought DU was better than that. I guess denial is a river many more swim in than we realize.
What really bothers me is that if we don't take this variant seriously, we'll be postponing our freedom from this scourge by sloppy prevention and nonchalance.
Not getting both vaccines and continuing to wear masks seem like small prices to pay for actually and truly protecting our loved ones, neighbors and ourselves from the horrible effects of this terrible illness.
I'm going to bookmark both of our posts so six or three or two months from now, I can survey the damage, because there will be damage. I have little doubt.
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That 'well-regulated militia?' ...was originally created to quell rebellions of the enslaved, prof
That ‘well-regulated militia?’ It was originally created to quell rebellions of the enslaved, prof says | Opinion
BY LEONARD PITTS JR. JUNE 18, 2021 11:15 AM
Conservatives have a special purgatory for uppity black women who dare question America’s founding myths.
New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones — her Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project” centralized slavery in America’s origin story, a heresy that inspired laws banning her work from classrooms — now lives there. And she’s about to have company.
In her new book, “The Second,” Emory University history professor Carol Anderson takes on an even more sacred cow: guns. She argues that the Second Amendment — which supposedly came about solely as a hedge against tyranny — had at its heart a much less noble concern: Southern states demanded the right to bear arms because they feared rebellions by enslaved Africans.
So the South held America hostage. It refused to join the new nation unless it was guaranteed the right to keep its guns. Not that this was the region’s only demand. Ultimately, the Constitution contained several clauses protecting slavery and slave owners.
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More at the link.
https://amp.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article252203768.html?__twitter_impression=true
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