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A number of western lowland gorillas at Zoo Atlanta have tested positive for the coronavirus, the zoo announced on its website. Recently, Gorilla Care Team members observed coughing, nasal discharge, and minor changes in appetite in several members of the gorilla population, the zoo wrote Friday. Upon the onset of these signs, the Animal Care and Veterinary Teams immediately pursued testing for SARS-CoV-2. Fecal samples and nasal and oral swab samples were sent to the Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Georg stanley cup ia, where they tested presumptively positive. Zoo Atlanta is waiting to receive stanley cup the results of the confirmatory tests on samples sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. It was not clear how many gorillas tested positive. The gorillas at risk of experiencing COVID-19 complications are receiving monoclonal antibodies, the zoo said. The teams are collecting samples for testing for the Zoo s entire gorilla population, which includes 20 members living in four troops, and will regularly test the gorillas regardless of the presence of symptoms, the zoo said. The zoo believes the gorillas were infected by an employee who was fully vaccinated and wearing Personal Protective Equipment while caring for the animals, but later test stanley cup ed positive for COVID-19. Are gorillas threatened by c Sdji After plastic straw bans, environmentalists take aim at balloons) O0 E5 A, Y5 j# S {& ]/ v2 P% P7 \
FORT KENT, Maine -- Maine Gov. Paul LePage says that negotiations with a nurse who treated Ebola patients have broken down and that he is ready to exercise the full extent of his a stanley cup uthority to protect the public.LePage said Thursday that the state was willing to agree to arrangements that would have allowed Kaci Hickox to go for walks, runs and bicycle rides while preventing her from going into public places or coming within 3 feet of others. But the governor said those discussions failed. Nurse fights Maine over state-imposed self-quarantine 00:55 The state previously vowed to go to court to have Hickox confined to her home against her will for the remainder of the 21-day incubation period for Ebola that ends on Nov. 10. Hickox, who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, says confinement violates her rights. She says that she has no symptoms and poses no risk to the public.On Thursday morning, Hickox left her home for a bike ride. Hickox, 33, earlier told reporters that she hoped for a com yeezy promise with health officials, but her actions indicated she had no intention of r stanley cup emaining in isolation. I really hope that we can work things out amicably and continue to negotiate, she said as she and her boyfriend rode on a dirt path in this small town of 4,300 |
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