South Korea starts to treat pets as people with respect to Covid-19

South Korea

South Korea have their first feline coronavirus patient, a kitten at a missionary school in Jinju, South Gyeongnam Province where 100 people tested positive recently. The owner of the cat and her daughter tested positive for the virus and the presumption by the health authorities is their cat caught the virus from them. She …

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Boris Johnson rightly says that Chinese medicine is “demented”

Traditional Chinese medicine

I admire Boris Johnson for stating that traditional Chinese medicine is demented. He blamed this ancient medicine based on superstition without any science for unleashing the devastating coronavirus pandemic. And I agree with him. He made this outspoken statement, which needed to be made by a leader, to a virtual gathering of world leaders …

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Singapore woman abandoned four cats fearing they might transmit Covid-19

One of the abandoned cats

NEWS AND COMMENT: This might be the first case of its kind. It may be the first time that a person has abandon their cats because of a fear that the cats might transmit Covid-19 to them or their family and subsequently charged and prosecuted under a Singapore statute, namely the Animals and Bird …

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Are we going to inoculate pets to stop Covid-19 mutations?

Are we going to have to innoculate our pets to stop a potential mutated Covid-19 reservoir?

COMMENT ON THE NEWS: I am speculating but I think it’s reasonable to do so. Are we going to have to inoculate our companion animals against Covid-19 in order to prevent mutations developing in what might be described as a reservoir for the disease? I’ll explain what I mean. In America, about 120 black-footed …

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Domestic cats may rescue humankind from this coronavirus nightmare

Maine Coon on white

The thing about domestic cats which is of interest to scientists is that they can become infected with Covid-19 but that they get over the disease very quickly and when they have the disease their symptoms are mild or they are asymptomatic (without signs of the disease). If humans could respond this well when …

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Cats and dogs most susceptible to coronavirus infection after humans but cat lovers don’t care

Coronavirus illustration

Scientists have come up with the conclusion that our companion animals, ferrets, cats and dogs are most susceptible to a coronavirus infection after humans but the truth of the matter is that cat lovers don’t care about this. They’re just not interested and the authorities will be unable to create any regulations which try …

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