Source: FARM PROGRESS, 3/19/21


The United Kingdom variant, B.1.17, of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been detected for the first time in a dog and a cat from the same household in Brazos County as part of a study led by researchers at Texas A&M University. The first reported finding of the human variant virus in any animal worldwide, this detection of the UK variant in animals in a natural household setting reinforces the importance of having procedures in place to monitor the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome as it crosses species barriers.

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