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Rare snow leopards die of Covid-19 complications at US zoo
- cmoscoso 5y agoLockdown didn't work.
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- h2odragon 5y agoAlso: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tiger-tests-positive-for-covid-19-at-brookfield-zoo/2626763/ https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tiger-tests-positive-f...
- cultdeadcovid 5y agoDumb ass animals. They should've followed best practices by the experts and gotten fully vaccinated.
- cultdeadcovid 5y agoIf the animals had any respect for life they would've kept six feet apart from each other. Looks like Ranney, Everest, and Makalu were all GOP Trumpers. Here in America we call those people "domestic terrorists". Fact checkers claim that had they stuck to their curfew and wore a mask lives could have been saved.
- vfclists 5y agoI'm sure they were denied Ivermectin.
- loceng 5y agoI believe some zoos are vaccinating their animals. This article doesn't mention whether these animals were vaccinated or not?
- retinaros 5y ago3?? seems more like they gave them the wrong drugs
- webmaven 5y agoI'm finding the stories of a wide range of animals being susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 worrisome, as it seems to indicate that even in optimistic scenarios there are going to be significant reservoirs of the virus and diverse variants in the wild, well, forever, periodically breaking out into the broader human population, often from some random initial animal vector. We're never going to eradicate it at this point, it is going to remain endemic in perpetuity, as common as the flu but significantly deadlier.