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Gorillas at San Diego Zoo test positive for coronavirus
CNET ^ | January 11, 2021

Posted on 01/11/2021 3:33:26 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

It's not just humans who have been impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic. Pet cats have tested positive, as has a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York. On Monday, the San Diego Zoo announced that members of its gorilla troop have COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.

The gorillas reside at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a 1,800-acre facility that houses rhinos, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes and the endangered gorillas.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; cvirus; gorillas; sandiegozoo; testspositive; zoo
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To: ConservativeStatement
A mango tested positive.

Why shouldn't gorillas?

21 posted on 01/11/2021 3:52:12 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Dear Clare, The awkward time is almost over. Love, Normal Americans)
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To: jz638

“Why is anyone testing gorillas in the first place?”

Classic Freeperism!

Don’t read article, just ask questions! The problem is, nobody else read the article either, including me. 🤣


22 posted on 01/11/2021 3:52:50 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Donald J. Trump is the rightful President of the USA and his own party won't admit that.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bird have it. Bees have it. Even educated fleas have it. Let’s do it. Let’s put our face in a glove.


23 posted on 01/11/2021 3:54:50 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: ConservativeStatement

WHY are they wasting time and resources testing gorillas?


24 posted on 01/11/2021 3:58:17 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

They were “coughing” per the article...

https://nypost.com/2021/01/11/two-gorillas-test-positive-for-covid-19-at-san-diego-zoo/

On the NY Post site:

Officials believe the primates caught the virus from an asymptomatic staff member, “despite following all recommended precautions,” the zoo said in a press release.

“This is the first known instance of natural transmission to great apes and it is unknown if they will have any serious reaction,” the statement said.

In an update on the coronavirus pandemic Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said a third gorilla was also displaying symptoms of the illness.

“We are currently confirming the source of the infection and the strain,” Newsom said.

“There is some question did it come human to animal. That’s being determined…,” he added.


25 posted on 01/11/2021 4:03:11 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Say her name: Ashli Babbit,)
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To: jz638

I was just gonna say that. Why are we testing cats, gorillas etc?


26 posted on 01/11/2021 4:07:38 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: ConservativeStatement

Wait, so if all the zoo keepers were following the precautions, i.e. wearing masks, etc., that means masks didn’t stop the CCPVirus from spreading. Whose gonna volunteer to mask up the gorilla?


27 posted on 01/11/2021 4:09:24 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: ConservativeStatement

Ok can we take the masks off now? Nothing is stopping this.


28 posted on 01/11/2021 4:13:26 PM PST by Ikeon (we fight not against flesh and blood. but forces of darkness the blind cannot see. )
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To: TheRake

It says that the park is currently closed to the public. But when they reopen they should warn people to stay at least 6 feet away from the gorillas.


29 posted on 01/11/2021 4:14:21 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: TheRake

So we tested Pelosi, Newsom, Gascon, Garcetti, Boudin, Harris, Maxine Waters, Becerra, and the rest of the Democrats!! About time.


30 posted on 01/11/2021 4:16:12 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ConservativeStatement

Harambe’s revenge


31 posted on 01/11/2021 4:19:19 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The question to ask is what were those zookeepers doing with those gorillas?


32 posted on 01/11/2021 4:29:53 PM PST by dynachrome ( “The people have spoken . . . and they must be punished.” Ed Koch. Sauve Qui Peut)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Testing zoo animals when people can’t get the test.


33 posted on 01/11/2021 4:59:05 PM PST by bgill (.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Has Gavin and his garbage can of friends been at private “parties” with them ... sex, drugs, drinking, etc.?


34 posted on 01/11/2021 5:01:36 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: neodad

Don’t worry, Bigfoot and Sasquatch are the kings of social distancing.


35 posted on 01/11/2021 5:14:15 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: neodad

Leave Sasquatch alone!

Peach


36 posted on 01/11/2021 5:47:24 PM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: ConservativeStatement

...so does Coca Cola


37 posted on 01/11/2021 5:53:41 PM PST by cqnc (sic transit gloria mundi...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Pretty sure our cat had it


38 posted on 01/11/2021 5:54:38 PM PST by Scotswife
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To: SaxxonWoods
Don’t read article, just ask questions!

I read the article and still don't understand.

"Hey, did you see that gorilla cough?",

"Yeah, maybe we should stick one of them covid swabs into it's poop."

39 posted on 01/11/2021 7:49:28 PM PST by jz638
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To: T-Bird45

Well, I guess Chuck Norris could handle it ... he’d only have to do it the hard way with them once!


40 posted on 01/11/2021 8:05:55 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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