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Cross-species transmission unlikely from coronavirus infected Asiatic lions
T. V. Padma The likelihood of a coronavirus jumping from lions to other zoo animals is extremely rare.
© PixabayScientists have ruled out cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to other
animals after eight Asiatic lions at a zoo in Hyderabad tested positive for the coronavirus – and have since been treated.
The scientists at Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) sequenced
the virus genome from the animal samples. CCMB director Rakesh Mishra told
Nature India that the chance of cross-transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from one
animal species to another is very, very low . Some of the infected lions showed mild symptoms and most were asymptomatic.