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YYS4BOB wrote:Can dogs carry/transmit the virus? On their leads for example. If so is every one that's handling the lead sanitising it and themselves?
yes !
2 dogs died from the virus and in Belgium got the virus (did not die) from his lady who had it also.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/secon ... 2020-03-20

https://www.livescience.com/cat-infecte ... owner.html

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matchboxmarcel wrote:
YYS4BOB wrote:Can dogs carry/transmit the virus? On their leads for example. If so is every one that's handling the lead sanitising it and themselves?
yes !
2 dogs died from the virus and in Belgium got the virus (did not die) from his lady who had it also.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/secon ... 2020-03-20

https://www.livescience.com/cat-infecte ... owner.html

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Thank you for posting the links, Marcel. I'd heard about one of the dog infections, but not about the other and not about the cat.
I would suggest that given the large number of human infections (heading towards 1 million) and the low number of dog and cat infections (3), pets either display very low level symptoms/are asymptomatic, or the transmissibility between species is extremely low. Human-to-human transmission (including via inanimate objects, and especially those with hard surfaces) is therefore what we should all be concentrating on.
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A Tiger by the Tail?

Jason Kindrachuk, assistant professor and Canada research chair at Manitoba University’s department of medical microbiology & infectious diseases, said it was hard to know how daily life could return to normal until there was a vaccine and until governments know what the immunity levels are across the population.

“The concern with this virus … is how to reduce social distancing measures and enforcement in such a way that you don’t reignite transmission chains for the virus and find yourself back at square one with trying to get things contained,” he said.

(Quoted from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... infections)
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misterpop wrote:The red version could be very collectable like the Ford GT.
:D
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DrJeep wrote:Do share the contents of the French parcel, Hugh - we all need distraction from the daily worry of Covid-19.
Here.
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All set for my trip to the grocery store ...

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luddites are a special kind of folk

there is a bill gates video going around where he is talking about funding places to make a cornavirus vaccine and the conspiracists think that once injected with the vaccine there will be a chip inplanted
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