--- title: Ebola Dog, Cat Guidelines Issued by Veterinary Group description: Though the spread of the deadly virus hasn't been linked to animals canonical: https://time.com/3582362/pet-ebola-veterinary-guidelines/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-13T00:36:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:24:07.182Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Dog, Cat Guidelines Issued by Veterinary Group og:description: Though the spread of the deadly virus hasn't been linked to animals og:url: https://time.com/3582362/pet-ebola-veterinary-guidelines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb826688d2ebd837b/69876884a988ca92506aab3e/dog-kennel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5134 og:image:height: 2888 og:image:alt: Beagle on Hind Legs with Paws on Kennel Bars og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola Dog, Cat Guidelines Issued by Veterinary Group twitter:description: Though the spread of the deadly virus hasn't been linked to animals twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb826688d2ebd837b/69876884a988ca92506aab3e/dog-kennel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Veterinarians Group Issues New Guidelines for Pets and Ebola > Sponsored content. 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Pets should be quarantined, according to vet group’s new [guidelines](http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/dog-cat-quarantine.pdf) issued this week, if they have been in close contact with someone infected with Ebola. If the pets test positive for the lethal virus, they should be put down. While quarantined, the pets should be confined to a crate or kennel inside a secure facility and stripped of all clothing and collars that could have possibly been contaminated. The recommendations reiterate that there have been no reports of dogs or cats stricken with the virus, not even in parts of Africa where the disease is rampant. In the U.S., the likelihood of pets getting the disease is very low, and the last known person in the U.S. to have been diagnosed with the virus was released from the hospital with an all clear on Tuesday. The CDC and leading veterinarians began researching how to approach pets of people infected with Ebola after the dog of a nurse in Spain was [put down](http://time.com/3479228/ebola-dog/) when its owner contracted the virus. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3582362/pet-ebola-veterinary-guidelines/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3582362/pet-ebola-veterinary-guidelines/"},"headline":"Veterinarians Group Issues New Guidelines for Pets and Ebola","datePublished":"2014-11-13T00:36:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:24:07.182Z","description":"Though the spread of the deadly virus hasn't been linked to animals","url":"https://time.com/3582362/pet-ebola-veterinary-guidelines/","keywords":["ebola","Pets","Infectious Disease"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb826688d2ebd837b/69876884a988ca92506aab3e/dog-kennel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb826688d2ebd837b/69876884a988ca92506aab3e/dog-kennel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Beagle on Hind Legs with Paws on Kennel Bars","caption":"Beagle on Hind Legs with Paws on Kennel Bars","creditText":"Cavan Images/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3582362/pet-ebola-veterinary-guidelines/","name":"Veterinarians Group Issues New Guidelines for Pets and Ebola"}}]}] ```