{"id":103507,"date":"2020-03-09T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/dogs-cats-cant-pass-on-coronavirus-but-can-test-positive"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:25:31","slug":"dogs-cats-cant-pass-on-coronavirus-but-can-test-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/dogs-cats-cant-pass-on-coronavirus-but-can-test-positive","title":{"rendered":"Dogs, cats can\u2019t pass on coronavirus, but can test positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dogs-cats-cant-pass-on-coronavirus-but-can-test-positive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG \u2014 Pet cats and dogs cannot pass the new <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Coronavirus\" id=\"_ap_link_coronavirus_Coronavirus_\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus<\/a> on to humans, but they can test positive for low levels of the pathogen if they catch it from their owners.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the conclusion of Hong Kong\u2019s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department after a dog in quarantine tested weakly positive for the virus Feb. 27, Feb. 28 and March 2, using the canine\u2019s nasal and oral cavity samples.<\/p>\n<p>A unidentified spokesman for the department was quoted in a news release as saying. \u201cThere is currently no evidence that pet <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Animals\" id=\"_ap_link_animals_Animals_\" target=\"_blank\">animals<\/a> can be a source of infection of COVID-19 or that they become sick.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG \u2014 Pet cats and dogs cannot pass the new coronavirus on to humans, but they can test positive for low levels of the pathogen if they catch it from their owners. That\u2019s the conclusion of Hong Kong\u2019s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department after a dog in quarantine tested weakly positive for the virus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}