Going Viral… Covid-19: What a Pet Owner Needs to Know
Likely you and your mom never heard of Ignaz Semmelweis but they both subscribed to a simple act of hygiene that could save your life…washing your hands. In 1847 Hungarian physician, Dr. Semmelweis, saw that women who gave birth under the care of doctors in Vienna had a much high rate of death that was 3 time higher than those who were cared for by midwives. The difference was the simple act of hygiene, washing hands with a chlorinated lime solution. You can’t turn on the TV, listen to the radio or peruse social media feeds without hearing about SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as corona virus and the disease it caused, Covid-19. What is this virus, is your pet at risk, are you at risk from your pet? What can you do to protect all the members of your family and your community?
My guest, Dr. Jane Sykes is an infectious disease specialist, a veterinarian, holds a Ph.D. in veterinary microbiology and is the Chief Veterinary Medical Office of the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
We are going to bring you the most accurate information that is available at this time. Please let your friends about this podcast. It could help prevent someone you care for from getting ill and allow us all to get back to the life we enjoyed before Covid-19 as quickly as possible.
BIO:
Dr. Jane Sykes is a Professor of Small Animal Medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine with a special interest in small animal infectious diseases. She is also the Chief Veterinary Medical Officer of the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. She obtained her veterinary degree and PhD in veterinary microbiology at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and her residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Minnesota. She is Board-Certified in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2001, and joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2002. She has coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, is the editor of the Elsevier textbook “Canine and Feline Infectious Diseases”. She co-founded the International Society of Companion Animal Infectious Diseases (ISCAID), was the first President of that Society, and is currently Secretary-Treasurer of ISCAID. She was President of the ACVIM Specialty of Small Animal Internal Medicine from 2012-2015, and is currently Associate Editor (Infectious Diseases) of the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.