{"id":7442,"date":"2020-04-08T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2020-04-08T11:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:53:44","slug":"human-to-animal-transmission-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/human-to-animal-transmission-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID 19 &#038; Human to animal transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ars.els-cdn.com\/content\/image\/1-s2.0-S2090123220300540-ga1.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19 infection: Origin, transmission, and characteristics of ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Malayan tiger at New York\u2019s Bronx Zoo has\u00a0<strong>tested positive for SARS-CoV2<\/strong>. Four-year-old Nadia is believed to have caught the virus from a zoo employee, who had not shown symptoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The virus came from an animal source and mutated; humans have since been infecting humans. It is theoretically possible for the virus to mutate again to survive in certain species after being transmitted by humans.<\/li>\n<li>The Bronx Zoo case suggests an employee spread the virus to the tiger, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement.<\/li>\n<li>Several lions and tigers at the zoo, in fact, have shown symptoms of respiratory illness. The others were not tested to limit the potential risks of general anesthesia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Domestic animals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There have been a handful of\u00a0<strong>cases of pets being infected<\/strong>; the indications are they caught it from humans.<\/li>\n<li>There have been reports about two\u00a0<strong>dogs in Hong Kong<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 a Pomeranian and a German shepherd \u2014 testing positive. While their respective humans had COVID-19, the dogs themselves were not showing symptoms.<\/li>\n<li>In what has more context in the Bronx Zoo tiger testing positive, there has been a domestic cat, too, catching the virus, in Belgium. Unlike the dogs, the cat showed symptoms. 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