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| Breitenmoser, U.; Breitenmoser-Wrsten, C.; Peterhans, E. | |
| Cats and Sars-CoV-2 | |
| 2020 Cat News (71): 3-4 | |
The IUCN SSC Bat Specialist Group has issued a recommendation to suspend field activities to protect bats (www.iucnbsg.org). After several tigers and lions have shown symptoms of COVID-19 in New York's Bronx Zoo (Goldstein 2020), we have been asked whether the IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group would recommend halting field work with cats as long as the Sars-CoV-2 virus is circulating. The sensitivity of this issue is highlighted by several newspaper reports that suggested a tiger living in Pench Tiger Reserve in India may have succumbed to COVID-19 (https://www.freepressjournal. in/bhopal/madhya-pradesh-pench-forest-staff-qurantined-after-death-of-corona-positive-tiger-is-fit-now; 27.04.2020). |
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