'What was surprising was the fact that the diagnoses didn’t stop with the humans in our family. Our dog Winston tested positive for the novel coronavirus too, becoming, we think, the first known dog in the U.S. to do so.'
My husband’s an ER doctor who has been treating patients since before widespread COVID-19 testing was available, so we weren’t surprised when he got the virus. Given how contagious it is, we also weren’t shocked when I tested positive for it a few days later and then our 20-year-old son showed symptoms.
We wouldn’t have had any idea our sweet, affectionate pug had the virus if we hadn’t enrolled our family of 4 in a Duke University study testing participants who’ve recovered from the coronavirus for antibodies. Our 17-year-old daughter was exposed to the virus but never showed symptoms, so researchers wanted to test her too to see if she was a carrier.
Testing our pets wasn’t something we thought about doing until it was presented as an optional component of the study. At that point we figured – why not? When we enrolled in the study in mid-March, we had heard about a few animals in Asia testing positive for the virus but none in the U.S.
When the results came back, Otis and Mr. Nibs were negative, but shockingly, Winston tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Looking back, he did have a cough for a few days while we were sick, and there was one morning he wouldn’t eat breakfast, which is out of the ordinary for him. But those symptoms were never severe enough for us to even think we needed to call the vet. It’s hard to know if those things were related to this virus or just a coincidence.
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