Covid in chickens

[Sunny the Chicken]

I closely interacted with a couple of my chickens without knowing I had covid. Should I be concerned? Our faces were close but it wasn't longer for 15 seconds.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Chickens can’t catch/carry/have Covid, so you have nothing nothing to worry about.

 

[SourRoses]

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230905/Can-SARS-CoV-2-infect-poultry.aspx

The current study provides important insights into human-animal transmission and reveals that chickens could be new intermediate hosts for SARS-CoV-2 VOCs. Both the AXL and ACE2 receptors of chickens were identified as potential targets for emerging SARS-CoV-2 VOCs; however, more research is required to analyze other host factors for SARS-CoV-2.

both Delta and Omicron variants contain heavy mutations that could aid their altered susceptibility towards chicken.

 

[Sunny the Chicken]

Chickens can’t catch/carry/have Covid, so you have nothing nothing to worry about.

Thank you so much!

 

[KrisK2024]

We had same situation here my daughter and I had Covid last week and wasn't aware and handled our 1.5 week old chics and so far I haven't seen no evidence of them being sick...just acting like their normal spoiled selves!

 

[Sunny the Chicken]

We had same situation here my daughter and I had Covid last week and wasn't aware and handled our 1.5 week old chics and so far I haven't seen no evidence of them being sick...just acting like their normal spoiled selves!

Thank you so much, its relieving to hear

 

[Perris]

Diseases usually jump species when those species are in unnaturally close proximity. Looking at it from the other direction, the people who've caught H5N1 (avian flu) almost always lived or worked with poultry.

The only reply you've had with a reference attached you ignored, and favoured random anecdotes that tell you what you want to hear, rather than what you should know. Ignorance may be bliss, but it's not normally a tactic that wins the evolutionary race.

Perhaps a picture can speak 1,000 words:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7396141/