Feline Infectious Peritonitis and Feline Coronavirus Interest During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Google Trends Analysis

Coronaviruses infecteddifferent species of animals, such as feline, canine, swine and bovine. Inveterinary medicine, a significant fatal coronavirus disease in Felidae is FelineInfectious Peritonitis (FIP). The Internet provided many websites about smallanimals that present educational content for prevention, pets welfare,etc. Upper than 90% internet users chooses Google search engine. In2008, Company launched Insights displaying searchtrends data. Finally, this company merged Search intoGoogle Trends (GT).We conducted analysis to evaluate searchinterest FIP feline the COVID-19 pandemic. For thispurpose, we two topics, "Feline infectious peritonitis" and"Feline coronavirus” GT, collecting duration study wasselected periods: January-November 2020, period thesame 2019 comparison. Comparison RSV means between thesetwo periods was performed using independent samples t-test with assumingunequal variances two-sided p-value <0.05 considered statisticallysignificant. coronavirus" topics have significantly increased during theCOVID-19 comparing same (p-value<0.05). After pandemic onset,all aspects our lives were affected by consequent problems. Thisglobal attention has made valuable opportunity presenting theimportance corona viral diseases any species. increase interest insearching Feline peritonitis indicatedthat continued global concerns raised infection felines. Theresults can be useful animal health policymakers,veterinarians journalists help reduce Felinecoronavirus providing on Internet.