{"id":481,"date":"2020-04-23T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=481"},"modified":"2020-04-23T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:30:56","slug":"two-companion-animals-in-u-s-diagnosed-with-sars-cov2-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/23\/two-companion-animals-in-u-s-diagnosed-with-sars-cov2-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Companion Animals in U.S. Diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2020\/s0422-covid-19-cats-NYC.html\">reported<\/a>\u00a0today that two pet cats at undisclosed locations in the State of New York are confirmed to be positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that characterizes the human disease COVID-19.\u00a0 These are the first cases of companion animals (pets) in the U.S. confirmed to have the SARS-CoV-2 virus.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/johnmsimpson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Simpson<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/2020\/04\/22\/cdc-confirms-2-companion-animals-in-u-s-with-sars-cov-2-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Animal Law Developments Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0reported\u00a0today that two pet cats at undisclosed locations in the State of New York are confirmed to be positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that characterizes the human disease COVID-19.\u00a0 These are the first cases of companion animals (pets) in the U.S. confirmed to have the SARS-CoV-2 virus. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/23\/two-companion-animals-in-u-s-diagnosed-with-sars-cov2-virus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Companion Animals in U.S. Diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 Virus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[648,646,649,586,647],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-animal-transmission","tag-cdc","tag-companion-animals","tag-pets","tag-u-s-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}