{"id":36,"date":"2023-08-29T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2023-08-29T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:33:57","slug":"should-my-pet-get-tested-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/29\/should-my-pet-get-tested-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing my pet for Covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pets can be tested, but because of the minimal risk, USDA, CDC, AVMA, and others are not recommending pets be tested for COVID-19 at this time.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As of March 15, the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine has the capability to test for the new COVID-19 in pets. The test request must be submitted by a veterinarian and must include the rationale for the test. Requests will then be sent to the state animal health officer and state public health veterinarian for approval on a case-by-case basis. In the event of a positive result, these same officials must be notified before the referring veterinarian.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact the diagnostic laboratory with any further questions at (217) 333-1620.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pets can be tested, but because of the minimal risk, USDA, CDC, AVMA, and others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/permanentvetjobs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}