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This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Wade Gibbs.

The COVID-19 pandemic has a lot of people stuck at home with their cats, which raises some obvious questions.

Can cats catch the new coronavirus from their owners? Can cats spread the disease to each other?

And can people get infected by their cats?

Scientists have been so busy studying human-to-human transmission of the virus

that few so far have looked at how it may be able to spread among cats and the humans they live with.

But a few preliminary reports within the past few days

suggest that cats can catch COVID-19, probably from humans, and then give it to other cats.

On April 5th, the Bronx Zoo announced that four tigers and three lions have developed symptoms

of the disease. Scientists at Cornell University and the USDA tested samples from one of the tigers

and confirmed that it was infected with the SARS

COVID-2 virus.

And researchers at the University of Illinois looked at the samples and found that the virus

in the tiger was genetically indistinguishable from strains seen in humans.

So the tiger must have caught this from a zookeeper, which is a little surprising.

I mean, I would think six feet would be a minimum safe distance from a tiger under any circumstance.

But perhaps someone coughed on her food.

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