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  • Bronx Zoo tiger tests positive for the virus that causes COVID-19

    Apr 6, 2020 2:00 pm by National GeographicIllinois in the News
    A Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo, photographed in 2017. In a first, one of the zoo's Malayan tigers, Nadia, has tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN, CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES

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    National Geographic (April 5) A veterinary team took samples from the tiger and sent them to a diagnostic laboratory at Cornell University and the U. of I. Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. 

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