Found the perfect animals for tests COVID 19

Russian virologists believe that cats are most susceptible to COVID-19, write “news”.

High sensitivity of cats to the coronavirus shows the number of scientific works of scientists from China. According to them, checking for the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan cats revealed that 14.7 per cent involved in the study of animals was infected.

They can also become infected, and because infected Pets are increasingly finding cases of owners. The number of cases of reverse transmission of coronavirus from animals to humans is not officially recorded.

According to experts, cats most often used in neurological studies because their nervous system is complex, but stable.

However, cats will be more expensive than that used in the tested mice. In addition, nurseries with clean lines of these animals, which were fit for work, very little.

On 4 April it was reported that the cat of the Chinese Wuhan, which became the focus of the spread of coronavirus, massively infected. Meanwhile, the scientists found antibodies to the coronavirus in the body more than ten cats from Wuhan. Experts noted that something similar could happen in other regions of Earth that are affected by the epidemic.

According to the Johns Hopkins University on April 13, the world’s more than 1.8 million infected with coronavirus, of which 113 thousand died about 421 thousand cured. First outbreak of coronavirus was recorded in the Chinese city of Wuhan.