DrZoidberg
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https://10daily.com.au/news/world/a...ronx-zoo-tests-positive-for-covid-19-20200406
Not quite the thread for it, but spreading.
Did we know previously the virus could do this?
viruses going from one species to another isn't unheard of. That's how the Coronavirus went from bats to pangolins to humans. I listen to the TWIV podcast (this week in virology). And they were talking about a likely future for the Covid-19 strain. They said that it'll infect about 70% of all humans then almost completely die out. But before dying out it'll likely go from humans into another species. That species will then be a vector (an animal that carries a disease) which will reintroduce the Covid-19 disease to humanity every generation.
They said this right at the start of it. It's normally how it works for new viruses in the human population. Which animals that we infect, is a bit random. But tigers are a mammal. So why not?
The answer to the question is, yes, we knew. It's normal