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May 14, 2020

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Cats Can Transmit the Coronavirus to Each Other, but They Probably Won’t Get Sick From It – The New York Times

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New York Times

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine and Peter Halfmann of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with other researchers from both the United States and Japan, conducted the study, in which three domestic cats were inoculated with the virus and three additional uninfected cats were put in cages, one with each of the inoculated cats.

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The rest of us: ‘The Last of Us 2’ trans controversy, explained

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Inverse

Numerous academic studies have linked interactive narratives with improved empathy. In 2018, the University of Wisconsin-Madison found middle-schoolers who played a video game “showed greater connectivity in brain networks related to empathy.”

“If we can’t empathize with another’s difficulty or problem, the motivation for helping will not arise,” Richard Davidson, director and professor of psychology and psychiatry at UW-Madison, said of the study. “Our long-term aspiration for this work is that video games may be harnessed for good.”

The pandemic and wild animals – Protecting great apes from covid-19

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The Economist

Late in 1990, when Paul Kagame was hiding on the Congolese side of the Virunga Mountains preparing to invade Rwanda, his army, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, were not the only formidable inhabitants of that densely forested volcanic range. The Virunga are also home to mountain gorillas. Soldiers are notoriously trigger-happy when it comes to wildlife, but Mr Kagame ordered his men not to shoot the apes. “They will be valuable one day,” he said.

(Tony Goldberg, virologist, School of Veterinary Medicine)

Cats can catch COVID-19 and may be contagious to other cats

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NBC-15

According to the UW-Madison, Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka and his team determined this by taking COVID-19 from an infected person and exposing three cats. Within three days, they found coronavirus in all of them. Then, researchers put unexposed cats in each of those cats’ cages.

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Hannah Reale is a sophomore at UW Madison, double majoring in Health Promotion and Health Equity and Spanish. She is also on the cross country and track and field teams, and truly exemplifies what it means to be a student-athlete.

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Hannah Reale is a sophomore at UW Madison, double majoring in Health Promotion and Health Equity and Spanish. She is also on the cross country and track and field teams, and truly exemplifies what it means to be a student-athlete. Together, the men’s and women’s cross country and track teams ran 1300 miles in one week, raising more the four thousand dollars for No Kid Hungry.

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