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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3026</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2020.SP38</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>COVID-19 Spread Through Petting - A Review&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>V.</surname><given-names>Karthik</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rani</surname><given-names>Leslie</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P.</surname><given-names>Brundha M.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>3</day><month>11</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>D-</volume><issue>em</issue><fpage>51</fpage><lpage>54</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aim and Objective: The main aim of this study is to analyse whether COVID 19 can spread through pet animals to humans. Background and Discussion: Coronavirus belongs to the RNA group of family viruses. Coronaviruses can cause cold-like illness in people and some might cause illnesses in certain animals. Certain viruses like canine and feline coronavirus affect or infect only animals and do not infect humans. Certain coronavirus which infects animals can sometimes spread to humans. This caused an impact on the current issue of the outbreak of COVID-19. COVID 19 spreads primarily from person to person but also there__ampersandsignrsquo;s a chance that it might spread from people to animals or vice versa. Certain studies show that people who are infected but don__ampersandsignrsquo;t have symptoms most likely play a role in the spread of coronavirus. The risk of animals spreading COVID-19 to people is considered to be low severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome are some examples of disease caused by a coronavirus. Conclusion: This review discussed the nature of COVID-19 viral spread through domestic pet animals and there is no evidence to suggest that any animals including pets or livestock can spread COVID infection to people.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> COVID</kwd><kwd> Dog</kwd><kwd> Cat</kwd><kwd> Petting</kwd><kwd> Spread</kwd><kwd> Zoonotic infections</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
