Tiger in NYC tests positive for COVID-19

TheDude73

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There was also a cat who caught it from his owner recently. Seems felines are more susceptible. No data yet that it can jump back to humans from animals, but that would be pretty freaking messed up.
 

joeyrupption

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In China, they threw a bunch of their pets out of their high rises to the sidewalk below. Terrible stuff.
 
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In China, they threw a bunch of their pets out of their high rises to the sidewalk below. Terrible stuff.

Truth be known they probably weren't pets but their weekly food supply...any society that eats German Shepard's is effed up. Barbarian bastards.

 
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joeyrupption

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Truth be known they probably weren't pets but their weekly food supply...any society that eats German Shepard's is effed up. Barbarian bastards.

They were little dogs and cats around apartment buildings, splattered on the sidewalk. Definitely pets.
 

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Didn't the "experts" say that the virus couldn't be passed from humans to animals?! Wow, something else the "experts" didn't know.
 
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Didn't the "experts" say that the virus couldn't be passed from humans to animals?! Wow, something else the "experts" didn't know.

Unless it somehow mutated, which apparently it did...remember it jumped from mammal to man to begin this **** show.

Hopefully it can't jump back, but I don't think anyone really knows all of the answers at this point.
 
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So people still have to wait to get tests but a tiger can get one?

From the article:

Dr. Paul Calle, Bronx Zoo Chief Veterinarian said, "The COVID-19 testing that was performed on our Malayan tiger Nadia was performed
in a veterinary school laboratory and is not the same test as is used for people. You cannot send human samples to the veterinary laboratory,
and you cannot send animal tests to the human laboratories, so there is no competition for testing between these very different situations."
 

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I love dogs and would never harm one, much less eat one. But, it’s a different culture. We eat cows and some cultures think they are sacred. We eat pigs and some cultures think that is forbidden. We drew a line as western culture that dogs are off the menu. Does it make ‘us’ right? WhoTF knows?

We can all agree that it’s an inhumane and filthy system, though.

Personally I’d feed my dogs some people before I’d feed any people my dogs. (I’m not a serial killer. That’s Glen(n).)
 
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I love dogs and would never harm one, much less eat one. But, it’s a different culture. We eat cows and some cultures think they are sacred. We eat pigs and some cultures think that is forbidden. We drew a line as western culture that dogs are off the menu. Does it make ‘us’ right? WhoTF knows?

We can all agree that it’s an inhumane and filthy system, though.

Personally I’d feed my dogs some people before I’d feed any people my dogs. (I’m not a serial killer. That’s Glen(n).)

Wu's pigs ate good...

 
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From the article:

Dr. Paul Calle, Bronx Zoo Chief Veterinarian said, "The COVID-19 testing that was performed on our Malayan tiger Nadia was performed
in a veterinary school laboratory and is not the same test as is used for people. You cannot send human samples to the veterinary laboratory,
and you cannot send animal tests to the human laboratories, so there is no competition for testing between these very different situations."

The lab thing probably is true but do they not use the same type of swab or materials which are also in short supply?
 

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I love dogs and would never harm one, much less eat one. But, it’s a different culture. We eat cows and some cultures think they are sacred. We eat pigs and some cultures think that is forbidden. We drew a line as western culture that dogs are off the menu. Does it make ‘us’ right? WhoTF knows?

We can all agree that it’s an inhumane and filthy system, though.

Personally I’d feed my dogs some people before I’d feed any people my dogs. (I’m not a serial killer. That’s Glen(n).)

Good thing school's out.