coronavirus to humans – but a new study has mentioned pigs need to be monitored over fears they could "become intermediate hosts of a future pandemic".
Animals have been frequently theorised as being carriers of the virus with different studies mentioning pangolins and bats as susceptible.But now a group of researchers have urged farmers to take particular care with pigs after the preliminary results of a new study found both the animal and cats had cells which are vulnerable to coronavirus.“Given that the Covid-19 pandemic is still progressing and Sars-CoV-2 strains are constantly evolving, we need to keep monitoring and evaluating the possibility of pigs to become intermediate hosts of a future pandemic,” the Chinese team wrote in the.