Has COVID-induced bat-shit craziness run its course? NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––More than three years after COVID-19 hit the U.S., killing nearly 1.2 million Americans and 6.9 million people worldwide, animal disease research appears to be at last returning to a focus on science, away from the highly politicized hunt for someone to blame. The […]
Are Bronx Zoo tigers with COVID-19 sentinels for brown bats?
Team researches whether humans can transmit COVID-19 back to bats NEW YORK, N.Y.––A four-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia, kept at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, and now four other times and three lions sharing the same facilities, may be evidence of asymptomatic human-to-animal transmission of COVID-19. Alternatively, the tiger and lion illnesses […]
St. James Infirmary in Saskatoon: One Health 2018
Humane societies played hooky SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Canada––From the perspective of 1,500 miles and more than two weeks away, the most remarkable aspect of the recent 5th International One Health Congress in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was that even though hundreds of people participated, many of those who should have been there were not. No one attended […]