According to the first documented case of suspected cat-to-human transmission, a 32-year-old previously healthy female veterinarian contracted COVID-19 after being exposed to an infected cat.
Researchers from the Prince of Songkla University in Thailand reported the case of a vet who was diagnosed with COVID-19 after being sneezed on by a cat owned by an infected patient in August last year.
The genetic study supported the hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from the owner to the cat and then from the cat to the veterinarian they wrote in the paper published in the paper published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal.
The vet revealed that five days earlier, she and other veterinarians had examined a cat belonging to 2 men who were also COVID-19 positive. The cat slept on the same bed as that of the infected men.
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