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Regarding close contacts .....meow

rogevibe — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:32:43 GMT

So a family member gets smitten with coronavirus and so obligated to isolate and self treat as best as can , along with close contacts , as a precaution so as to protect the wider community

Sound procedures and reasonable considering the often life threatening condition and lack of officially prescribed self-treatments prior to hospital

But has something been overlooked ? A potential spanner in the works of recovery , a furry spanner in this case ?

As seems now that the pet moggy can easily acquire and be a carrier and spreader of coronavirus

Is referred as feline coronavirus when ordering test kits online but appears the same as what blights people

This being the case if expedient to confront , might be an idea to make provision to include the family cat as a close contact and treat accordingly ( not thinking euthanise )

ps - if your cat has recently disappeared or dropped dead without obvious reason particularly of families blighted with clinically validated coronavirus .......

https://www.studyfinds.org/humans-transmit-covid-19-to-cats/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11620205/cats-spread-coronavirus-humans-symptoms-study/

(ps - were cats on order at the Wuhan market ? )

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domino-710 — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 03:47:12 GMT

Where again have you been - the CDC issued info yonks ago.

The transmission is very low.

Just take good care of your kitty.

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rogevibe — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 04:34:32 GMT

The real world : Many pet owners pay closer physical attention to their pet cat than fellow family members....

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sandypebbles — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 04:42:13 GMT

Pets ARE family

Pets cannot tell 'fellow family members' when something is wrong with them

Do you have a problem with that?

Real world, why wait almost a year to post the first link?

And then twist things down to your own level?

Include sick puppies while you are at it

Meow indeed

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not_for_sale — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 04:52:25 GMT

What about birds, mice and insects. Can they catch it too?

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repentatleisure1952 — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 05:02:04 GMT

@rogevibe wrote:
The real world :

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sandypebbles — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 05:05:32 GMT

Nah, only cats cat sh!t

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the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 06:06:58 GMT

Hong Kong to kill thousands of hamsters after Covid found on 11

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/hong-kong-cull-thousands-hamsters-covid-pet-shop-virus-animals

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domino-710 — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 06:28:19 GMT

@rogevibe wrote:
The real world : Many pet owners pay closer physical attention to their pet cat than fellow family members....

Well - in that case the family members aren't going to catch it from the cat. 😀

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imastawka — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 06:52:49 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Hong Kong to kill thousands of hamsters after Covid found on 11
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/18/hong-kong-cull-thousands-hamsters-covid-pet-shop-virus-animals

Talk about overkill - literally

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repentatleisure1952 — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 07:19:29 GMT

@sandypebbles wrote:
Nah, only cats cat sh!t

I can't help but keep thinking of Danil Medvedev calling the umpire a small cat🤣

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springyzone — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:25:38 GMT

I'd say that if a pet comes down with covid, then they most likely caught it from their owners. Where else would they catch it, as it isn't as if they attend parties or go visiting friends.

Dogs at least stay in their own backyard and if they are taken on a walk, they aren't normally near other people except in passing. They are pretty much in permanent quarantine except for being with family.

The chances of it going the other way-of a pet passing covid on to an owner, would be pretty low.

I don't know if there is that much we can do. I am not even sure how you would test a dog or cat.

I read about a survery that indicated that when the covid RAT kits are handed out to schoolchildren, a third of parents have stated they don't intend to test the kids twice a week at all, not unless they have symptoms.

If people aren't that keen to test their kids, they definitely won't be testing their pets.

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repentatleisure1952 — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:18:03 GMT

@springyzone wrote:
Where else would they catch it, as it isn't as if they attend parties or go visiting friends.

My dog would say...hold my beer.

He takes himself for a swim in the river (!km each way) & visits 2 lots of friends 6km away in different directions (they are my closest neighbours). They think it is funny when they call me to collect him in the ute when he he is too tired to walk back home.

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springyzone — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:30:37 GMT

😅Haha it sounds as if you have a very social country dog.

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countessalmirena — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 01:39:51 GMT

There was a huge culling of minks in Denmark in November 2020 after they became infected with COVID-19, and there were legitimate fears that the mink mutation was transmissible to humans.

Dogs and cats… no evidence that they can infect humans with COVID-19, although they (cats and dogs) can become infected by humans.

So… treat your pets kindly and don’t let them go to wild parties!

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janeababe — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 02:13:14 GMT

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domino-710 — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 04:01:50 GMT

That does it - Boo Boo - is now grounded. lol

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sandypebbles — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 04:06:09 GMT

This guy too

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4channel — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 10:39:00 GMT

New York Post

Faulty coronavirus kits suspected as goat and fruit test positive in Tanzania
By Ben Cost
May 6, 2020

Coronavirus test kits have aroused suspicions in Salaam, Tanzania after results taken from goats and fruit came back positive in what the country’s leader has dubbed a “technical error.” Tanzanian president John Magufuli memorably raised eyebrows earlier this week for touting an anti-COVID herbal tonic despite no scientific evidence that it cured the coronavirus.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/06/faulty-coronavirus-kits-suspected-as-goat-and-fruit-test-positive-in-tanzania/

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I heard a pawpaw tested positive too. Fruit flies?

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springyzone — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:35:01 GMT

Hmm, either the kits were faulty or else the leader is.

I am wondering if he has his own agenda.

There are some countries that are blatantly lying about their case numbers.

I was reading a report a couple of days ago that it is suspected that millions have died in India and numbers of deaths may be worse than in USA.

And China. Apparently, since the start of the pandemic, China has had a policy that if a person has any pre existing condition, their death cannot be attributed to covid.

To put that in perspective, just say someone got pneumonia and died, which happens a lot. Should we refuse to label the cause of death as pneumonia if that person also had eg a heart condition?

To me, pneumonia would be the primary cause although on death certificates here, underlying conditions would also be noted.

What I'd like to see in the news case you mentioned is independent testing of the kits and a note as to where they were made.

My experience of the RAT kits available here is they seem to be reasonably accurate. Everyone I know who has tested positive has actually had symptoms. In fact we have one daughter we are sure was positive but tested neg & we think it is because she tested too early then too late, so sometimes the kits don't detect it.