Tiger at zoo in New York tests positive for Coronavirus

[Sid Bishop]

OMG, this Coronavirus bad news seems never ending, seems like it is now crossing over into animals.
I think I also recall hearing a few weeks ago about a dog catching this virus.
Just hope it does not start spreading into animals on a large scale which in the worst scenario could lead to many animals having to be slaughtered as what happens in the case of the foot and mouth disease.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tiger-zoo-yor ... 20743.html

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

The four-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 was not 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.

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Probably carol baskins fault

[Mikero]

How come a tiger can get a test when nobody else in New York can, except politicians of course?

Mikero

[Long slender neck]

Even Leyton Orient footballers can get tested when NHS workers cant.

[o-no]

Are you going to say no to a tiger that wants a test?

[DonaldRocks]

I'm not planning to hang around with any tigers any time soon so I think I will be ok.

[Smendrick Feaselberg]

OMG!

[NuneatonO's]

Just waiting for the World's biggest pr!ck to say "It's a very special tiger. It's a great tiger".

[Chicken Dhansak]

How on Earth do you get a swab down a tiger's throat, jeez?

[Max B Gold]

I'm a bit concerned it might spread to the Giraffe community.