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Thailand reports the world's first case of COVID-19 cats passing from person to person, and is it time to start killing pets again?

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During the COVID-19 epidemic, in order to facilitate management, many sealed areas directly hunted and killed the pets of positive confirmed patients, and some even directly beat the citizens' dogs to death on the spot while the citizens requested to be isolated and transported.

However, pet cabins have also been established in many places to uniformly manage the pets of quarantined personnel.

Thailand reports the world's first case of COVID-19 cats passing from person to person, and is it time to start killing pets again?

So do pets really not spread the new crown?

Common pets, cats and dogs do not appear to be sick of the new crown, because the new crown virus has a certain degree of racial isolation, but it does not mean that pets will not carry the new crown virus.

Recently, Thailand reported the world's first case of human-to-cat infection.

Thailand reports the world's first case of COVID-19 cats passing from person to person, and is it time to start killing pets again?

According to foreign media reports, after a father and son contracted the new crown virus in August 2021, their cat was taken to the pet hospital for sampling, when the cat sneezed at the veterinarian, but it did not attract attention at the time.

After a lapse of 5 days, the veterinarian began to have similar symptoms of new crown infection, and the test results showed that the cat's new crown sample was positive, the veterinarian's nucleic acid test was also positive, and the genome of the new crown virus infection was the same as that of the cat infection.

It's an unprecedented chain of transmission, with people infected with COVID-19 passing on to cats, and cats passing on to others.

Thailand reports the world's first case of COVID-19 cats passing from person to person, and is it time to start killing pets again?

So what's the problem?

This transmission chain has really happened, so for those who originally want to kill the pets of the confirmed covid-19 patients, is this not real evidence, and will there be a large number of hunting and killing of the newly diagnosed pets in the future epidemic prevention policy?

If pets could speed up the spread of the new coronavirus, would you choose to abandon it? Is it more important to consider the safety of other people's lives, or is it more important to consider protecting your own pet?

I think the results speak for themselves, because humans are a selfish animal.

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