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"A tiger at New York City’s Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus, in the first known case of Covid-19 in an animal in the US, a zoo spokesman told Reuters on Sunday."
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A tiger in New York has C-19 on 23:00 - Apr 5 with 2183 views
I never understood why they were seemingly so sure animals didn't get it when it supposedly started in an animal. It was especially odd as they are so slow to confirm others facts, airborne travel, loss and taste and smell etc
A tiger in New York has C-19 on 23:12 - Apr 5 by Lord_Lucan
If the virus can be routinely transmitted to animals and vice versa then it is potentially a big feck off of a problem.
This is it, if it can go one way then it's not too far fetched to think it would find a way to go the opposite. Or maybe it's gone from an animal that has been taken in there and gone cross species from that.
And I keep seeing different versions of the origin anyway.
People eating bats, which doesn't make a lot of sense and doesn't fit into the narrative anyway.
From bats but via other creatures; i.e. droppings which have been eaten by other animals stored in the same areas. That would make some sense, if infection started that way and those animals were consumed maybe?
But then I've seen elsewhere that bats weren't at the particular wet market in Wuhan.
A tiger in New York has C-19 on 00:31 - Apr 6 by jeera
This is it, if it can go one way then it's not too far fetched to think it would find a way to go the opposite. Or maybe it's gone from an animal that has been taken in there and gone cross species from that.
And I keep seeing different versions of the origin anyway.
People eating bats, which doesn't make a lot of sense and doesn't fit into the narrative anyway.
From bats but via other creatures; i.e. droppings which have been eaten by other animals stored in the same areas. That would make some sense, if infection started that way and those animals were consumed maybe?
But then I've seen elsewhere that bats weren't at the particular wet market in Wuhan.
And pangolins.
Maybe someone can throw more light on this.
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A tiger in New York has C-19 on 00:31 - Apr 6 by jeera
This is it, if it can go one way then it's not too far fetched to think it would find a way to go the opposite. Or maybe it's gone from an animal that has been taken in there and gone cross species from that.
And I keep seeing different versions of the origin anyway.
People eating bats, which doesn't make a lot of sense and doesn't fit into the narrative anyway.
From bats but via other creatures; i.e. droppings which have been eaten by other animals stored in the same areas. That would make some sense, if infection started that way and those animals were consumed maybe?
But then I've seen elsewhere that bats weren't at the particular wet market in Wuhan.
And pangolins.
Maybe someone can throw more light on this.
It's not 100% conclusive yet but the likely vector was:
Bats -> Pangolin -> Humans
The pangolin was an intermediate mammal which helped the jump to humans. The problem with other mammals getting it is that even if it's eliminated from humans there is a natural reservoir of virus out there ready to jump and infect again.
A tiger in New York has C-19 on 23:12 - Apr 5 by Lord_Lucan
If the virus can be routinely transmitted to animals and vice versa then it is potentially a big feck off of a problem.
Received wisdom is that while animals such as cats can catch Covid-19, it is unlikely to affect them much but, more importantly, they do not pass it on to humans.
A tiger in New York has C-19 on 10:42 - Apr 6 by Radlett_blue
Received wisdom is that while animals such as cats can catch Covid-19, it is unlikely to affect them much but, more importantly, they do not pass it on to humans.
This is unproven.
The cats must have got it from humans at some point, there has just been no evidence of a vector in the other direction yet.
However it's too early to conclude anything at the moment.
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A tiger in New York has C-19 on 11:02 - Apr 6 with 1564 views
A tiger in New York has C-19 on 00:31 - Apr 6 by jeera
This is it, if it can go one way then it's not too far fetched to think it would find a way to go the opposite. Or maybe it's gone from an animal that has been taken in there and gone cross species from that.
And I keep seeing different versions of the origin anyway.
People eating bats, which doesn't make a lot of sense and doesn't fit into the narrative anyway.
From bats but via other creatures; i.e. droppings which have been eaten by other animals stored in the same areas. That would make some sense, if infection started that way and those animals were consumed maybe?
But then I've seen elsewhere that bats weren't at the particular wet market in Wuhan.
And pangolins.
Maybe someone can throw more light on this.
Hi Jeera
Bats were definitely at the market in Wuhan, in fact it was 2 different kinds of bats being literally squashed together artificially by humans there in close quarters, when the two species would never actually meet in the wild, that caused the problem.
I'll try to dig out the livescience.com article about it later.
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