You Might Have Given The Coronavirus To Your Cat

We've learned time and again that animals can give diseases to humans. We've seen this happen with coronaviruses, the flu, Ebola -- basically most major disease outbreaks in recent memory. But, of course, the reverse is true too: Humans can give viruses, including the novel coronavirus, to animals. FiveThirtyEight's senior science writer Maggie Koerth wrote about this on the site earlier this week , and she joined PODCAST-19, FiveThirtyEight's coronavirus podcast, to discuss her work further.

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You Might Have Given The Coronavirus To Your Cat is an episode from PODCAST-19: FiveThirtyEight on the Novel Coronavirus by FiveThirtyEight.com.

This episode is 12:05 long.

This episode was published on Apr 28, 2021.

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