AnimalsTwo Cats Are First U.S. Pets to Be Sickened with COVID-19

Published 9 June 2020

The first documented cases of U.S. household cats infected with COVID-19 have emerged in New York state, a new government report shows. Health Day reports that two cats—one in Nassau County, the other in Orange County—appear to have contracted COVID-19 from the humans with whom they lived, a team of veterinarians reported online June 8 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.