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A cat is first infected with the Delta variant. What does this say about the continuation of the plague? - Walla! health

2022-03-06T08:32:57.670Z


This is not the first time a pet has been infected in the corona, but this incident that occurred a few months ago raises questions, and perhaps even answers, for researchers about corona development >>>


A cat is first infected with the Delta variant.

What does this say about the continuation of the plague?

This is not the first time a pet has been infected in the corona, but this incident that occurred a few months ago raises questions, and perhaps even answers, for researchers about corona development.

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06/03/2022

Sunday, 06 March 2022, 09:58 Updated: 10:22

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The corona virus is not really picky, and since it began to spread among humans, it has been passed from humans to pets and even to wildlife.

And of all of these, cats seem to be particularly susceptible to corona infection, although they often show no symptoms and are unlikely to be able to transmit the virus back to us.



Still, if SARS-CoV-2 is circulating among our pets, there is always a chance that it may mutate into something even more dangerous or spread from house to house following contact between pets.

This is why some scientists are trying to track corona versions among our domestic pets.

And at least for now, there seems to be nothing to worry about.

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A new study reported a case of a domestic cat in southeastern Pennsylvania that was diagnosed with corona in September 2021. Subsequent genome tests identified the infection as a Delta version AY.3 - the same tough variant that roamed humans in the area at the time.

This confirms that newer versions of Corona (up to Delta, at least) are still trickling down to our pets, which is perhaps a little worrying.

On the positive side, the results suggest that the virus may not be highly mutated in pets.

Is there anything to worry about?

Cat at the vet (Photo: ShutterStock, kiszon pascal)

Of all the 4,200 human corona virus samples generated in Delaware, Pennsylvania, less than 5 percent contained the few 10 nucleotide variants (building blocks of the genetic material) found in the domestic cat sample.

Moreover, 7 out of 10 of these mutations were inanimate, meaning they did not cause significant changes.

"When we looked at a random sample of human sequences from our geographic area, there was nothing dramatically different in our cat's sample," explains Veterinarian Elizabeth Lennon of the University of Pennsylvania, "so our assumption was that the cat was not infected with a virus that was somehow very different."

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This study is the first to officially identify a Delta variant among U.S. domestic cats. Although at the time of the study, the authors became acquainted with another Virginia cat that contracted version AY.3 about a month earlier.



At the time the cat was brought for medical treatment, he suffered from extreme thinness, fatigue, vomiting and soft stools for several days

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In Corona, it was too late to do an antigen test from the cat's owner to compare the two viral infections, which means it is impossible to know how the cat became infected.



The fact that this is the first official report of a cat being infected in the Delta variant suggests that we can not be complacent about the infection among our pets.

"A major move here is that as different versions of SARS-CoV-2 appear, the virus appears to retain the ability to infect a wide variety of species," Lennon says.

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