I'm sick with some kind of (most likely not covid if 5 negative home tests are accurate) respiratory crud. I had my updated covid shot and flu shot last month. I work with the public and I'm one of the only people still masking at my workplace.
I spent a couple days feverish and headachy, still have a sore throat, and am now producing green goo like I'm in The Exorcist. I threw up once, but that may have been from taking a lot of ibuprofen with nothing in my stomach but tea. I woke up this morning unable to talk at all until I'd guzzled a liter of hot mint tea.
So far, so shitty.
My cat has spent the last few days weak and lethargic, with crusty eyes and no appetite. I bought a bulk box of those gross meat goo squeeze tubes and she's been eating those, got up to get water today, started grooming herself again, used the box she's hiding in as a scratching post...
I hope she'll recover; I was too sick to take her to the vet the last few days (no car, can't drive, would have to carry her) and tomorrow's Thanksgiving. She seems a bit better and I'll call the vet Friday and see about making an appointment, but they're always booked up so it'd probably be for next week.
My question is, aside from covid, what else can cats and people both catch that's respiratory and not, say, salmonella? (I also have chickens.)
My only guess is hantavirus which is rare here but does happen; my cat is indoor only but has caught at least one mouse inside before. Which would suck because there's no cure or treatment. is there anything else it might be, though?
Re: Ask questions cat & human viruses?
I spent a couple days feverish and headachy, still have a sore throat, and am now producing green goo like I'm in The Exorcist. I threw up once, but that may have been from taking a lot of ibuprofen with nothing in my stomach but tea. I woke up this morning unable to talk at all until I'd guzzled a liter of hot mint tea.
So far, so shitty.
My cat has spent the last few days weak and lethargic, with crusty eyes and no appetite. I bought a bulk box of those gross meat goo squeeze tubes and she's been eating those, got up to get water today, started grooming herself again, used the box she's hiding in as a scratching post...
I hope she'll recover; I was too sick to take her to the vet the last few days (no car, can't drive, would have to carry her) and tomorrow's Thanksgiving. She seems a bit better and I'll call the vet Friday and see about making an appointment, but they're always booked up so it'd probably be for next week.
My question is, aside from covid, what else can cats and people both catch that's respiratory and not, say, salmonella? (I also have chickens.)
My only guess is hantavirus which is rare here but does happen; my cat is indoor only but has caught at least one mouse inside before. Which would suck because there's no cure or treatment. is there anything else it might be, though?