{"id":973,"date":"2022-10-18T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=973"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:03","slug":"which-animals-catch-covid-this-database-has-dozens-of-species-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/18\/which-animals-catch-covid-this-database-has-dozens-of-species-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Animals Catch COVID? This Database Has Dozens of Species and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/which-animals-catch-covid-this-database-has-dozens-of-species-and-counting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific American<\/a>) Tracking how SARS-CoV-2 spreads among animals could help us prepare for the next pandemic. The virus that causes COVID-19 is a prolific sack of genes that targets not just humans but nonhuman animals as well. And just as humans and animals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-animal-viruses-most-likely-to-jump-into-humans\/\">can infect one another<\/a>, animals can also infect other animals, says Am\u00e9lie Desvars-Larrive, an epidemiologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. Scientists have learned a lot about how COVID spreads in humans but less about how it spreads between animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-18-at-21.38.21-1024x712.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-18-at-21.38.21-1024x712.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-18-at-21.38.21-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-18-at-21.38.21-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-18-at-21.38.21.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Scientific American) Tracking how SARS-CoV-2 spreads among animals could help us prepare for the next pandemic. The virus that causes COVID-19 is a prolific sack of genes that targets not just humans but nonhuman animals as well. And just as humans and animals\u00a0can infect one another, animals can also infect other animals, says Am\u00e9lie Desvars-Larrive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech","category-zoonotic-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}