A Tiger Tested Positive For Coronavirus

[Introverted1293]

This is so strange to me.

Bronx Zoo Tiger Tests Positive for Coronavirus, First U.S.-Based Animal

 

[melajames]

Really strange,...

 

[SkyWriting]

This is so strange to me.

Bronx Zoo Tiger Tests Positive for Coronavirus, First U.S.-Based Animal

Evidently ignoring face mask guidelines, like most people.

 

[jacks]

Very strange. Though who ever stuck the swab down it's nose deserves a medal!

 

[Jesse Johnson]

Ah, the news media: Anything and everything to scare people to death before they can even contract disease. Although I'm not sure TMZ even qualifies for the high distinction of "news media," do they?

 

[PloverWing]

Although I'm not sure TMZ even qualifies for the high distinction of "news media," do they?

A reasonable caution. Here it is as reported by the Associated Press (Tiger at NYC's Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus) and the New York Times (Tiger at NYC's Bronx Zoo Tests Positive for Coronavirus), so it does indeed seem to be a legitimate report. If it can hop from humans to large felines, I'm a bit concerned for my house cat now.

 

[JackRT]

I wonder who the courageous person was that shoved the swab up the tiger's nose?

 

[jacks]

I wonder who the courageous person was that shoved the swab up the tiger's nose?

That's an old joke.

 

[nonaeroterraqueous]

It's a zoonosis. We already knew that bats could get it, so this isn't too much of a surprise.

Zoonotic viruses can go one of two ways. As in the case with the hantavirus, a zoonosis can be quite mild for the animal and deadly to the human, whereas, in the case of something like rabies the virus is equally deadly to pretty much anything that it infects.

It would be interesting, though, if it turned out that all of the distancing measures we're taking amount to nothing because of an unknown animal vector, like a bird. We're keeping our six feet of separation and take no heed of the bird overhead.

 

[royal priest]

It's a zoonosis. We already knew that bats could get it, so this isn't too much of a surprise.

Zoonotic viruses can go one of two ways. As in the case with the hantavirus, a zoonosis can be quite mild for the animal and deadly to the human, whereas, in the case of something like rabies the virus is equally deadly to pretty much anything that it infects.

It would be interesting, though, if it turned out that all of the distancing measures we're taking amount to nothing because of an unknown animal vector, like a bird. We're keeping our six feet of separation and take no heed of the bird overhead.

Look in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane...

 

[nonaeroterraqueous]

Look in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane...

 

[Sabertooth]

It would be interesting, though, if it turned out that all of the distancing measures we're taking amount to nothing because of an unknown animal vector, like a bird.

...or mosquitoes!

 

[Jesse Johnson]

A reasonable caution. Here it is as reported by the Associated Press (Tiger at NYC's Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus) and the New York Times (Tiger at NYC's Bronx Zoo Tests Positive for Coronavirus), so it does indeed seem to be a legitimate report. If it can hop from humans to large felines, I'm a bit concerned for my house cat now.

To be sure. I don't have as much of a problem with what TMZ serves up as I do with the way they garnish it.

 

[Bob Crowley]

"Sorry Kiddo, but this is the last time! We can't meet like this anymore! Coronavirus - you know?"

"That's why I got the gun. If anybody so much as sneezes, I'll plug 'em good!"

 

[nonaeroterraqueous]

...or mosquitoes!

Bacteria, maybe, but probably not a virus.

 

[royal priest]

Mas fina virusa

 

[Arcangl86]

It's actually a good concern, because a lot of people have cats, and if cats can spread it, that needs to be accounted for in quarentees and self isolation.

 

[Paulus59]

This is so strange to me.

Bronx Zoo Tiger Tests Positive for Coronavirus, First U.S.-Based Animal

Perhaps the tiger got it from eating Chinese?