A Belgian woman with coronavirus has passed the infection onto her cat. Steven van Gucht, head of viral diseases at the Belgian Institute of Health, announced today that "a coronavirus infection has been determined in a cat". "The cat lived with her owner, who started showing symptoms of the virus a week before the cat did," he said at a press conference.
Neither the woman nor the cat were identified, but officials say they live in Liege in the French-speaking part of Belgium. "The cat had diarrhoea, kept vomiting and had breathing difficulties.
The researchers found the virus in the cat's faeces," Mr van Gucht said. "We want to stress that this is an isolated case. Additionally, in this case, we are talking about a human-to-animal
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