This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Monday 22 March 2021
Pet (Heart) Sounds
Luca Ferasin works in a Specialist Veterinary Hospital in Buckinghamshire. He has speculated, that the rising incidence of myocarditis in cats and dogs, can be linked to infection with the B117 (Kent) variant of Covid-19 (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/21/vets-warn-new-covid-variant-heart-problems-pets-cats-dogs). As in humans, inflammation of the heart muscle is life-threatening for companion animals. Prior to the Kent variant, cats and dogs only seemed to evidence a respiratory infection when their owners had Covid-19. Ferasin maintains he is only talking about human to pet transmission and not vice versa. This seems, however, just the statement a vet is likely to make. If you can catch Sars-CoV-2 from a mink, you can certainly catch it from a cat or a dog. In fact, animal to human transmission is more likely as contacts are closer. Humans may be less likely to show myocarditis but this is not certain.
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