Ask the expert: pets and COVID-19
(WorldNews Environment)

Since first hearing about the COVID-19 outbreak in China, media outlets around the world have reported on strains of the virus originating in animals, on pets testing positive for the virus and most recently, on a tiger testing positive for COVID-19 at the Bronx Zoo. Annette O`Connor - chairperson of the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences and professor of Epidemiology at Michigan State University`s College of Veterinary Medicine - says that there are seven different types of coronaviruses and that the Centers for Disease Control doesn`t believe the COVID-19 strain can be transmitted to domestic animals. However, O`Connor...