Animal care in times of Coronavirus
We've gotten a lot of information from national organizations (AAHA, AVMA), state organization (IVMA) and local health dept. There are webinars going on daily. What your vet does probably depends on...
Forum Discussion
pasusan wrote:
Since it is thought that this virus started with bats and/or those armadillo-like animals in Asia... What is different about them that they can have it and supposedly our pets can't?
IMWTK...
I'm not a Vet - but have read that bats don't have the normal immune response "inflammation/attack by antibodies" to "germs" that most mammals have, because inflammation = swelling = weight gain; and then they wouldn't be able to fly. So this is why bats can carry rabies, and not get sick from it? I can't address pangolins (the armored anteater-like animals). And of course we are lucky to have other people on this forum who know a LOT more about this than I do....
