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Tabitha111
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Posted: July 30 2020 at 7:19am |
By Scott Weese on July 30, 2020 As reports of positive animals continue to trickle in, we clearly know that some domestic animal species are susceptible, at least to some degree, to this virus. My take… Do we need more testing? Yes. We know little about human-pet transmission , pet-pet transmission and the clinical implications for animals or people. Do we need more patient testing done in vet practices? Not really. It’s low yield testing once we know pets can be infected, and there are some risks when it comes to testing of potentially actively infected animals. From a clinical standpoint, I think of three questions: Is there a realistic chance that the pet was exposed? Does the pet have clinical signs that could realistically be COVID-19? What would I do with the result (or…more specifically…would I do anything differently with a positive vs negative result)? The answer to the 3rd one is almost always ‘no’, so the hassles and risks involved with taking a pet to a clinic for testing only make sense if we are going to learn something good from the result. That’s rarely going to be the case now. We do need more research testing to answer questions about prevalence, clinical implications and transmission, as we can’t answer those through piecing together clinical testing results. Various research studies are underway to answer those. They’re not easy, though. Time will tell. |
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Dutch Josh
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DJ-With the 27th mink farm in NL showing infections I think it is time to go for as wide scale possible testing on animals if they are infected with Covid19-just to get an idea of how widespread infections may be. Another disaster is just waiting to happen-and we are not looking... |
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