BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) – Researchers from the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedicine at Texas A&M have confirmed that a cat and dog living in the same house have contracted the UK variant of COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports nearly 21,000 confirmed cases of the British variant in humans nationwide, with Texas reporting hundreds of …
BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) – Researchers from the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedicine at Texas A&M have confirmed that a cat and dog living in the same house have contracted the UK variant of COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports nearly 21,000 confirmed cases of the British variant in humans nationwide, with Texas reporting hundreds of …
The British variant B.1.17 of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was first detected in a dog and a cat from the same household in the county of Brazos in a study carried out by researchers at Texas A&M University . The research team travels to pet homes to collect samples, including swabs from their nose, mouth, rectum, and fur, …
