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PHOENIX, Ariz. (KNXV) — Kyla Kraust and her hubby Max see their canine Ollie and feline Pua their family.
When Max got COVID-19 earlier this year, they wondered if helium was astatine hazard of passing it connected to their furry companions. The Arizona Department of Health sent him an email astir a unpaid survey by the Translational Genomics Research Institute
(TGen) that would supply the answer.
Max, a shot scout for the Padres, took them up connected the offer.
“I conscionable thought it was a bully accidental for america and our unsocial concern to supply immoderate we could to assistance them bash the research,” said Max.
“We person tested conscionable implicit 80 animals successful 30 antithetic households crossed Arizona,” said Hayley Yaglom, a genomic epidemiologist with TGen.
Yaglom collects nasal and humor samples from the animals astatine the owner's home. What they recovered was owners were so passing connected COVID-19 to their pets.
“About 30% percent of those animals, again we’re talking dogs and cats, person been positive,” said Yaglom.
The squad has favored owners capable retired surveys to find retired however they interact with their pets. Do they buss them? Cuddle them? Do their different pets cuddle each other?
Each reply provides them with much discourse astir however the microorganism whitethorn person been transferred.
Yaglom said astir pets that person tested affirmative person had small to nary symptoms. However, she added that 5 cats person fevers and immoderate respiratory issues. But overall, pets rapidly retrieve and don’t walk the microorganism connected to humans.
“Could the microorganism yet alteration wherever pets that are exposed tin infect a person, we don’t cognize and we request to survey it,” asked Yaglom.
Thanks to pets similar Ollie and Pua, those answers are being discovered.
This communicative was primitively reported by Cameron Polom connected ABC15.com.
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