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Human-to-animal transmission

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People probably caught coronavirus from minks. That’s a wake-up call to study infections in animals, researchers say, from The Washington Post

A very good article; here's a brief excerpt:

...The steps being taken in the Netherlands, which also include surveillance of cats at the farms and wild mink relatives called martens, are among the broadest efforts to understand how a zoonotic virus that originated in animals before hopping to humans may now be spreading back to animals. In the six months since the outbreak began, cases have been reported of human transmission to dogs, cats, tigers and lions in addition to minks. Laboratory experiments have found that ferrets, hamsters, monkeys and other mammals are also susceptible to the virus.