Covid-19 spreading in animals

[Ediswan]

I've held off posting this for a while now but as I see this thread is now active again, here goes:

This article asks what kind of mouse.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-omicron-mouse-kind.html

If Omicron did switch to the mouse, then what kind of mouse was it? Namely, was it a wild mouse or a lab mouse? If the latter, a whole mouse or just cells from a mouse?

 

[Peter Sarf]

I can't imagine how you would test a hippopotamus for COVID.

It is hardly likely to take kindly to someone sticking a swab up its nose or down its throat.

And you would need a pretty big swab too.

Who is going to volunteer to test the lions for COVID?

Don't all rush at once.

This surely illustrates just how dangerous ANY variant of Covid can be !.

This article asks what kind of mouse.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-omicron-mouse-kind.html

I foresee mayhem and upset in suburbia. The cats will be next on the hunted list.

Just thought - there will be panic buying of mousetraps soon !.

 

[ExRes]

The most likely animal to spread covid to humans is the lemming, it's been proven beyond doubt over the last two years how much they have in common

 

[kristiang85]

The most likely animal to spread covid to humans is the lemming, it's been proven beyond doubt over the last two years how much they have in common

Made me laugh!

 

[nw1]

I can't imagine how you would test a hippopotamus for COVID.

It is hardly likely to take kindly to someone sticking a swab up its nose or down its throat.

And you would need a pretty big swab too.

Who is going to volunteer to test the lions for COVID?

Don't all rush at once.

Some of the zero-Covid supporters that are under discussion here on the hamster subthread would doubtless claim that if you're close to an Omicron-infected hungry lion, the biggest danger to you is Omicron.

One could draw a cartoon of the Earth being wiped out by a nuclear holocaust, and some hardline zero-Coviders in a space station jumping for joy with the caption "At last! Covid has been wiped out!"

.. the punchline being one of the militant zero-Coviders, visibly stressed, saying "erm... what do these lines on my lateral flow test result mean....?"

 

[Jonny]

If covid was so bad, perhaps animals woud have been culled en masse. That's the biggest clue IMO.

 

[greyman42]

If covid was so bad, perhaps animals woud have been culled en masse. That's the biggest clue IMO.

Animals don't self isolate, wear masks or anti-social distance and yet they are still going strong. Perhaps we could learn something from them.

 

[nw1]

Animals don't self isolate, wear masks or anti-social distance and yet they are still going strong. Perhaps we could learn something from them.

I have seen feral cats social-distance though in quite an amusing way (namely a few of them sat on a flat area at random locations, with significant distance from each other). But perhaps that's just because they're cats.

 

[Peter Sarf]

Animals don't self isolate, wear masks or anti-social distance and yet they are still going strong. Perhaps we could learn something from them.

But then there are not too many of them on the planet. They are rarely crowded together in cities or suchlike. Battery hens I am looking at you..