After two feline friends in New York became the first U.S. household pets to test positive for thecoronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says pet owners should take the precaution of simply treating pets like "other human family members."
Though there have only been a handful of known cases ofanimalsbecoming infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, the advisory issued last week suggests people apply the same social distancing measures to their pets as they do to family with whom they're living.