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Bronx Zoo Tiger Tests Positive For COVID-19

Published April 7, 2020 at 11:26 AM CDT
This undated photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society shows Nadia, a Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Nadia has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday, April 5, 2020. (Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society via AP)
This undated photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society shows Nadia, a Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Nadia has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday, April 5, 2020. (Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society via AP)

A 4-year-old Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for COVID-19, which officials deem as the first known instance of person to animal transmission of the virus.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks to Dr. Paul Calle, the zoo’s chief veterinarian.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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