There has been reports of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infections in both domestic felines and large zoo cats in recent weeks.

While these infections were characterized as human to feline transmission, what do we know about feline to feline or feline to human transmission?

My guest today, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher, Peter Halfmann, PhD, joins me to discuss the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Show notes: 

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Domestic Cats

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