A Feline Disease May Hold the Key to Beating Back COVID-19

Guest post by Ingrid R. Niesman, MS PhD

Unprecedented circumstances provide opportunities when you least expect them. In our current crisis, cats may hold the key to beating back the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The link between FIP and COVID-19 

While we were blindsided by this baffling new illness, in retrospect, we shouldn’t have been so unprepared for a novel coronavirus to emerge. Feline enteric coronavirus (FECV), the virus responsible for development of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) in young...