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cord-285254-8a1cia8s	Parry, Nicola M.A.	COVID-19 and pets: When pandemic meets panic	2020-12-31		.txt	text/plain	3624	206	57	Concern also rapidly emerged among pet owners and the general public in late February 2020, when a dog in Hong Kong tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Although the dog had no clinical signs, he was taken to a nearby animal quarantine facility where oral, nasal, and rectal swab specimens were collected from him for SARS-CoV-2 testing. In late March 2020, health officials in Belgium reported that a cat from Liège province had also tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, about 1 week after its owner was diagnosed with COVID-19. Thus, the positive RT-PCR results in these pets do not necessarily indicate the presence of viable virus that was infectious and could potentially have put other people (or animals) at risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.	./cache/cord-285254-8a1cia8s.txt	./txt/cord-285254-8a1cia8s.txt