Corona Pandemic: Stay Safe and Safeguard Others Including Your Pets and Farm Animals

Corona pandemic is causing havoc in the USA and rest of the world. To stay safe and help protect others, it is utmost important to follow the safety guidelines issued by the Center of Disease Control (CDC): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html

Understanding how this COVID-19 (disease caused by the new corona virus) impact our body and cause the death of those who have weak immune system or other pre-existing health conditions is important. An article “Corona Virus: What It Does To The Body”: (https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51214864) published recently by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is very informative.

For those of us, who have pets or farm animals or both, the news on the novel corona virus affecting the tiger in the Bronx Zoo is alarming (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/science/tiger-cats-coronavirus.html). When animals are infected, there are two important aspects: 1) they may be sick and show symptoms of the disease, which eventually affect the health and performance of animals; 2) they may serve as the disease (corona virus) carrier and transmit the virus to numerous other susceptible animals and humans. Therefore, developing and implementing the biosafety protocol to our homes and farms has become more important than ever before.

PREVENTION is the best strategy to stay safe and help save others – both human and animals at this critical moment!