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Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for Covid-19

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I can't post the link...but you can Google it...

 

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NEW YORK -- A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday.

The 4-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia, and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill, are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee who wasn't yet showing symptoms, the zoo said. The first animal started showing symptoms March 27, and all are doing well and expected to recover, said the zoo, which has been closed to the public since March 16 amid the surging coronavirus outbreak in New York.

 

I am really getting nervous about this..

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more heartbreak

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Re: Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for Covid-19

 

 

Well, the tigers caught it from one of their keepers.  Animals catch it from us, and can then pass it to each other.

 

However, it does not seem that they can pass it TO us.

 

There are a few other animals ill in the world as well.  

 

We need to practice social distancing with them, too!

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I thought it was a joke because of the "Tiger King" Netflix thing until I looked it up.

 

They have other big cats sick from the zoo keeper....

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Re: Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for Covid-19

This is the same exact zoo that had a program on Animal Planet called appropriately enough, "The Zoo".

 

 

As far as zoos go, this is one of the best ones.

 

 

They really do care for and love the animals there.

 

 

They get the BEST treatment and care.

 

 

 

I'm glad that the kitties will get better.

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and now there are people complaining on social media that how can a TIGER get a testing kit and when dont even have enough for humans?

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@sunshine45 wrote:

and now there are people complaining on social media that how can a TIGER get a testing kit and when dont even have enough for humans

 

 







It is a reasonable question......
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Boy I was just reading about the Bronx Zoo and how the keepers of the Gorillas/Monkeys what do you call them Primates (?) needed to be careful since those animals are closest to humans.

 

The CDC kept indicating on their website not to worry about passing it to your companion animals and I kept thinking about the dog in Hong Kong who caught a less severe case of Rona from it's person.

 

 

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Re: Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for Covid-19


@FancyPhillyshopper wrote:

 

 

Well, the tigers caught it from one of their keepers.  Animals catch it from us, and can then pass it to each other.

 

However, it does not seem that they can pass it TO us.

 

There are a few other animals ill in the world as well.  

 

We need to practice social distancing with them, too!


This coronavirus supposedly came from the animals in the wet markets in China. Pangolins are often  mentioned.