Cyprus allows human Covid-19 medications to be used against deadly virus mutation in cats
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Humans cannot contract the mutated feline virus, which isn't related to Covid-19, according to veterinary officials who are skeptical of reports from local animal activists that the mutation has killed as many as 300,000 cats.
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Unused coronavirus medication for humans will be made available to treat cats in Cyprus, where they have been dying in their thousands from feline COVID, officials announced Thursday.
Humans cannot contract the mutated feline virus, which isn't related to Covid-19, according to veterinary officials who are skeptical of reports from local animal activists that the mutation has killed as many as 300,000 cats.
Unused coronavirus medication for humans will be made available to treat cats in Cyprus, where they have been dying in their thousands from feline Covid, officials announced Thursday.
Cyprus' veterinarians association on Friday lauded a government decision to allow its stock of human coronavirus medication to be used on cats to fight a local mutation of a feline virus that has killed thousands of animals on the Mediterranean island.
The Feline Infectious Peritonitis, a deadly COVID-19 mutation, allegedly killed thousands of cats in Cyprus. The government has approved the use of human medication to fight the virus.
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