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A Tiger Has Contracted Covid-19. Should We Be More Worried About Pets?

by ajaviaad on 4/7/20, 7:48 PM with 1 comments

  • by cwillu on 4/7/20, 8:23 PM

    > Per a statement from the Bronx Zoo: “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.”

    Which is why animals are never used for testing of treatments and tests being developed for use in humans. Oh, wait...