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Gorillas test positive for coronavirus at zoo in San Diego Three infected animals are exhibiting symptoms like coughing, officials said
Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 12:59 Updated: Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 13:20
As many as eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are presumed to have contracted Covid-19 from a human handler after one of the animals tested positive, marking the first known transmission of the virus to apes. Video: Reuters
Members of the Gorilla Troop are seen in their habitat on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Photograph: Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Safari Park via AP
Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming what federal officials said Monday were the first known apes in the US to be infected.
Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California, have tested positive for Covid-19, in the first known instance of natural transmission to the species, officials said.Officials of the San Diego Zoo Global, which operates the San .
Several gorillas at San Diego Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19. After two of the gorillas began coughing on January 6, fecal samples were sent to the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System (CA HFS) and tested positive for the virus.