https://finance.yahoo.com/video/covid-19-jumps-humans-animals-092543225.html

Fri, March 26, 2021, 2:25 AM

Covid-19, a virus that many experts believe came to us from bats, has been transmitted on from humans to pets and other animals. Here’s why some scientists are worried that so-called spillbacks could potentially perpetuate a cycle of infection. Photo: Markus Scholz/Zuma Press

Video Transcript

-What’s the common link between a gorilla, a cat, and us? All of these can be infected with the novel coronavirus. And what’s more worrying is that we, humans, can transmit the virus to these species and some others. Scientists around the world are testing all kinds of animals to study the so-called spillbacks of the virus that causes COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2.

The spillback is basically when an animal virus leaps from humans back to animals. Many scientists believe COVID-19 came over to us from wild animals.

-–infected, believed to be by an asymptomatic zookeeper.

-Well, Hong Kong has…