Thirteen gorillas test positive for Covid at Atlanta zoo
Western lowland gorillas are believed to have caught the virus from a zookeeper claim ‘zoo officials’.
More than a dozen gorillas have tested positive for Covid-19 at Zoo Atlanta, probably after contracting the virus from a keeper, zoo officials said.
Staff were alerted when several of the zoo’s troop of 20 western lowland gorillas began exhibiting symptoms, including runny noses, mild coughing and loss of appetite.
Fecal samples and swabs sent to the University of Georgia’s veterinary diagnostic laboratory showed that 13 of the great apes were positive for coronavirus, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
In a statement posted to the zoo’s website, officials said they believed a vaccinated member of its animal care team, who was wearing personal protective equipment and asymptomatic when she came to work, probably transmitted the virus.
“The teams are very closely monitoring the affected gorillas and are hopeful they will make a complete recovery,” Sam Rivera, Zoo Atlanta’s senior director of animal health, said.
Further tests sent to the national veterinary services laboratory in Ames, Iowa, for confirmation, were pending, the statement added. Some of the gorillas are receiving monoclonal antibodies, and staff are paying close attention to Ozzie, a 60-year-old male thought to be most at risk of Covid complications.
Zoo Atlanta’s gorillas live in close proximity to each other in four groups, making it impossible to isolate them individually. As they recover, they will receive the Zoetis coronavirus vaccine developed for veterinary use, the statement said.
Other animals at Zoo Atlanta that will receive the vaccine in the coming days will include Bornean and Sumatran orangutans, Sumatran tigers, African lions, and a clouded leopard.
In February, San Diego Zoo announced that all eight of its lowland gorillas who had contracted Covid-19 a few weeks earlier, including Winston, a 49-year-old male, had made a full recovery.
The California zoo also reported in July that its two endangered snow leopards had coronavirus, but were responding well to treatment.
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JaKo
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Wow, not only papaya and goats, but even great apes can “test” positive!
Maybe they should “mRNA vaccinate” them (6-months after recovery, like in EU); but wouldn’t it void their insurance?
Cheers, JaKo
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Alan Thorpe
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I surprised they haven’t done more human testing of the virus before putting animals at risk.
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cathleen anderson
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lol, great reply!
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itsme
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could they used expired vax version for a test run….oh wait….
https://t.me/officialcharliewardshow/34560
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Windy
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Give them ALL Ivermectin, it works for ALL mammals, both the best and cheapest drugs that cure people from covid (regardless the variant),are anti-parasite drugs, so there must be a parasitic component of the manufactured virus and spike protein! Hydroxychloroquine (for malaria) and Ivermectinn (for intestinal worms, river blindness which is caused by a parasite, bots, etc.) the paste versions of Ivermectin for animals, are given according to the weight of the animal, so if you are denied the human version you CAN take the animal version, just make certain you know what dosage to take according to your own weight. The Ivermectin pills for humans will have the dosage on the bottle. The paste version I’ve seen at the farm/feed store are apple flavored.
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Tom
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Horsefeathers! Did they use the useless PCR test to determine this? I recall some leader of one country submitting an oil sample and it can back positive. I do not believe this for a second. More scare tactics. Before long, these pharma morons will require that every dog and cat on the planet be injected with mRNA poisons….might as well get rid of them too since there will be no people left to feed them.
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Pierre-D Bernier
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My Bengal cat also had Corona Virus some years ago ! I’m not dead ! Nor my wife !
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Eduardo Ferreyra
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There are two possibilities here: either the manipulated virus made in Wuhan didn’t lose its capability to infect animals (as the original SARS virus does), or the animals are all getting PCR tests as false as the ones human beings have been showing. How I said one and a half years ago, this is a PCR pandemic… everything is false as a wooden tooth.
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E. Nichols
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This is about real a three dollar bill, what these idiots proved is the so-called PCR test is worthless. It is the basis of this on going fraud and as long as the mainstream media reports this kinda crap as being valid we will have the ongoing scamdemic. We should probably start testing houses, cars, and computers as well. The useful idiots across the world are helping to fuel this nonsense. After a year and half you would think people would figure this out, but that simply is not the case.
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