Soliciting studies on dogs shedding #SARSCoV2 (how much, how long)
Two studies I found claim that of what dogs do shed, none is culturable/infectious
From September 2020:
"We also confirm an earlier report that dogs do not replicate virus in the upper respiratory tract [...]" (From September 2020)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2013102117
Which cites (from April 2020):
"... infectious virus was not detected in any swabs collected from any of these dogs."
I pulled up a paper I've sent people before, and that just cites the two that you already have there.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9556808/
Maybe a tiny more info here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2334-5
"A 2.5-year-old male German shepherd was positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA on two occasions and virus was isolated from nasal and oral swabs."
"The evidence suggests that these are instances of human-to-animal transmission of SARS-CoV-2. It is unclear whether infected dogs can transmit the virus to other animals or back to humans."
And, more recently in 2023, still the same conclusion:
"We found that dogs can get COVID-19 from their owners but are asymptomatic when infected—it is unclear if it affects the health of dogs. Research is inconclusive on if dogs can transmit SARS-CoV-2 to their owners."
@BE @currentbias I remember in 2020 there were reports that people in China were kicking their pets out of their home. I totally didn’t understand that, if my cat was going to get Covid it would be from me. It’s not like he’s out there going clubbing and he might bring it home to me.
@BE
They're not asymptomatic. My dogs got it when Grandpa-In-Law couldn't be bothered to wear a mask on his 45 minute flight up here for Christmas in 2022. They were sneezy, wouldn't eat, got into a fight, and my older but much larger dog (120 lbs) dropped his dew claws after the fracas. They just popped right off. The smaller dog (80 lbs) sunk its teeth into her ass when we broke up the fight.
That's not a normal occurrence. Worst fight they've ever had.
@currentbias