Coronavirus Vaccine Kills Cat  

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Researchers take coronavirus from human patients and infect cats with Coronavirus.

Each cat is housed in a cage with another cat that tested negative for Coronavirus.

None of the cats ever showed any coronavirus symptoms.

Scientists who led the research say it shows the need for more research into whether coronavirus  can spread from people to cats to people again.

Anyone concerned about that risk should use “common sense hygiene,” said virus expert Peter Halfmann. Don’t kiss your pets and keep surfaces clean to cut the chances of picking up any virus an animal might shed, he said.

University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine led the lab experiment and published results Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Federal grants paid for the work.

Professor of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine Yoshihiro Kawaoka led the study, in which researchers administered to three cats SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a human patient.

The following day, the researchers swabbed the nasal passages of the cats and were able to detect the virus in two of the animals. Within three days, they detected the virus in all of the cats.

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