Can Your Pet Get COVID-19? You may have heard that coronaviruses can infect animals and wondered whether your pets could get COVID-19--or pass the virus to you. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses. Some cause illness in people, and some, like canine and feline coronaviruses, ...
In rare cases, a coronavirus jumps from animals to humans. A small number of pets have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. This is thought to have also happened with two other types of deadly coronaviruses, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) andsevere acute respiratory sy...