Tiger gets coronavirus

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One piece of news that seems to have passed ‘experts’ by is that in the US, a tiger in the Bronx zoo picked up coronavirus from the keeper. One assumes that no intimate contact had been made.

This coronavirus is, of course, an animal virus that kicked off in China. The Tiger is doing well - no particular symptoms at all.

This news should terrify folk. If the virus can easily pass to animals, then it just takes one infected person who is isolating along with his or her dogs and cats, and within weeks you have an ongoing well established source of infection. Dogs, cats, farm animals. It’s not all bad news, once the virus is happy in its environment it will just join the parade of coronaviruses and rhinoviruses that cause all our winter colds and coughs.

Meanwhile, just train your dogs and cats to keep a good two metres from others of their kind. Easy, isn’t it?
 
That young man who got this early in China, he recovered but his young cat who got it at the same time popped off poor thing. He didn't know it was Coronavirus at the time. It was early days.
 
I'm going to steer clear of any tigers I see knocking around the neighbourhood 😱 😉
 
Northerner said:
I'm going to steer clear of any tigers I see knocking around the neighbourhood 😱 😉
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Or anyway, don't go near one without a mask - you might have the virus without knowing it & you wouldn't want to infect the poor thing.

Also, don't let it lick your face.
 
Just as a follow up to all you super confident folk, there are reports around the world of dogs picking up the virus. Ok, ferrets may catch it easily, but as I remarked, you aren’t usually intimate with Tigers, whereas pet ferrets are often handled.

Take my word for it, viruses are pretty tenacious little bits of RNA, you’ll never ‘stop’ it, whether at its source in bats or pangolins, or in our domestic or other animals. And humans who don’t get significant symptoms, just like the animals.
 
mikeyB said:
Just as a follow up to all you super confident folk, there are reports around the world of dogs picking up the virus. Ok, ferrets may catch it easily, but as I remarked, you aren’t usually intimate with Tigers, whereas pet ferrets are often handled.

Take my word for it, viruses are pretty tenacious little bits of RNA, you’ll never ‘stop’ it, whether at its source in bats or pangolins, or in our domestic or other animals. And humans who don’t get significant symptoms, just like the animals.
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I'll be OK, I put my name down for a vaccine - I got an email from some Nigerian guy who is going to give them away as long as you send him your bank details so he can make sure you're a real human and not just someone trying to rip him off 🙄
 
I'm in awe of the bloke who shoved the swab up the tigers nose to get a diagnosis.
 
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