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Quite a lot of inventions are occurring in the healthcare industry which is part of Internet of Things adoption. If IoT takes off as everybody expects, healthcare industry is going to get huge benefit out of it. It is also evident that several software, service, and product companies are showing interest in connecting devices with a view to make their primary product or service more attainable. With an increasing number of medical devices getting connected to the Internet, the idea of interconnected healthcare sphere gets more fascinating. The tech experts opine that like the Internet, the Internet of Things too is going to be a part of our everyday life. In fact, the adoption level shows an increasing trend and there will be more takers for these devices in the future. There is a high level of adoption of medical devices that are connected to each other. Look at the way the healthcare industry wants to be connected with each and every thing associated with it. The same is true for a coronavirus of humans that decides to change their host species.The concept of the Internet of Things, or IoT, is spreading its wings wider and stronger in the current IT scenario, and is gradually taking part in every facet of our lives. However, if it should ever humanize, it will no longer be a cat or dog virus, but rather a new human virus. There is no evidence that coronaviruses of our common veterinary species have entered humans in the recent past or vice versa. However, the tendency for coronaviruses to jump species is an ongoing occurrence and it is possible that a coronavirus from a common pet species such as a cat or dog may enter humans and cause disease sometime in the future. Viruses that have either not fully humanized, or have only recently adapted to humans, tend to cause much more severe disease, as is the case with the MERS-, SARS- and COVID-19.Īlthough coronaviruses can jump from one host to another, this is a slow process and requires significant genetic change. However, the new coronavirus appears to have successfully adapted to humans (i.e., it has become humanized) and is therefore looming as an even more severe disease problem than MERS and SARS. Interestingly, MERS and SARS coronaviruses did not quite make the jump from bats to humans, and died out. The various coronaviruses have been sequenced and their relationship to each other determined. The common cold-causing coronaviruses of humans (OC43, 229E and NL63) are in the alphacoronavirus group, along with the intestinal coronavirus of our pet cats and dogs. The more recently humanized strains of coronavirus, MERS, SARS and COVID-19 have jumped over from the betacoronaviruses of bats, possibly by intermediate infection of other animals such as camels and civet cats. They only cause disease in their new species and tend to remain in that species in whatever genetic form that allows adaptation to their new hosts. The more complex answer goes like this: Coronaviruses have adapted themselves by mutation over a period of 50,000 years or more to virtually every species of animal, including humans. They tend to be very species specific and cross-species transmission is uncommon. Coronaviruses occur in virtually every species of animal, including humans, and are commonly associated with unapparent or transient intestinal and respiratory infections. The simple answer is as follows: No, you won’t get or give the coronavirus to your family pet.
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Niels Pedersen, a distinguished emeritus professor at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and a renowned expert on infectious and immunologic diseases in dogs and cats, addresses the question, "Can pets contract coronavirus from humans or vice versa?"