A snow leopard in South Dakota also died of COVID in October.
A trio of snow leopards at a Nebraska zoo died of COVID-19 one month after contracting the virus, zoo officials said Friday.
Veterinarians attempted to treat the snow leopards with an aggressive regimen of steroids and antibiotics that ultimately proved unsuccessful. The trio passed away just one month after another snow leopard at the Great Plains Zoo also died from a suspected COVID infection. An Amur tiger at that zoo also contracted COVID around the same time.
The virus has already been identified in cats, dogs, lions, otters, tigers, and gorillas, among others. The CDC has stated that symptoms of COVID in animals could include many of the same ones seen in humans: fever, coughing, difficulty breathing, and a general lethargy.
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