Is this for real??!

[Jenasaurus]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8189973/Tiger-named-Nadia-tests-positive-coronavirus-Bronx-Zoo-developed-dry-cough.html

Apparently so (not sure about the Nadia bit) - it's on the BBC news. Curiouser and curiouser.

If you google it there are a lot of e-tickets about it now from reliable sources. Worrying!!

So shocking to hear this news.
I hope she and the other tigers and lions will not get any worse and will fully recover. They are such magnificent animals.

I expect the zoo worker will feel terrible that they have passed this awful disease on.

E-tickets erm that should say articles

So the virus can be transmitted to other species, does make me think about all the pet owners that are infected possibly infecting there furry friends

There has been some research and apparently it can be transmitted to cats. Not dogs pigs or horses I think.

And then the other question is can they pass it on to humans??

I bet that bitch, Carole Baskin, gave it to him.

I hope they recover, but it has other implications too. For example if we find dogs and cats can catch it and pass it on that would be a whole new problem.

As far as they know it cant be transmitted from them to us. Think there has been a couple of other cases of human to animal transmission

Worrying if it can be transmitted to humans from cats. My cat is an outdoor cat mostly but tends to sleep on my bed, and I've found out I'm in the shielded group. She'd never let any strangers go near her though so unlikely to be stroked by anyone. Hopefully the risk of her picking it up from surfaces is low.

There’s no evidence that animals can pass it to humans, all evidence so far suggests we can pass it to them unfortunately.

norahsbatty*thank you. Just thank you here is the crown.

Sars-CoV-2 infections / transmissions in animals
(German study)

https://www.vetion.de/fokus/Coronavirus--Sars-CoV-2/115/

The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) started a few weeks ago with infection studies in pigs, chickens, fruit bats and ferrets.

The first results have now been published, showing that fruit bats and ferrets are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection.

While ferrets can be infected efficiently with SARS-CoV-2, multiply the virus well and transmit it to other species,
there is no transmission in fruit bats.

Under the test conditions,
neither pigs nor chickens were found to be susceptible to infection
with SARS-CoV-2.

According to the current state of knowledge, they are not affected by the virus and therefore do not pose any potential risk to humans.

In the infection studies, SARS-CoV-2 was administered to the animals' noses to mimic the natural route of infection in humans via the nasopharynx.

Ferrets could therefore be an animal model that reflects human infection.

The complete evaluation of all test series will take some time, with the final results expected in early May.

There is also a preprint of a publication from China on March 30, 2020 for the journal nature, in which infection attempts with SARS-CoV-2
were successful in cats, while the virus was only able to reproduce weakly in dogs.

In these tests,
cats, like ferrets, excreted the infectious virus and were able to infect others by droplet infection

Great apes and monkeys are also thought to be susceptible to catching respiratory illnesses from humans - presumably because they are virtually people themselves.

It's really not good news if it can move between species as it can mutate into different and sometimes deadlier forms as it does so.

I was wondering a couple of weeks ago if it would be spread by domestic cats, wandering about everywhere. If tigers can get it, that seems more likely.

So if ferrets also affected, then I guess stoats /weasels /otters /mink / pole cats / etc too.. Foxes? Badgers?
I guess there must be quite a list of species, not many of which are as easy to “manage” as domesticated ones.