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Winnipeg zoo looking into COVID-19 vaccine for susceptible animals
Zoo introducing animals to Winnipeggers online with new ‘creature features’ Does this mean your pets will need to get the shot? Not exactly, said Enright, the zoo’s director of veterinary services and animal welfare.“What tends to happen is that people get sick with COVID and just as they can spread it to other people, they can spread it to animals.“Sometimes that’s a dog or cat at home — that has happened rarely — and it has also happened in a zoo situation where it has spilled over to animals that are susceptible to this virus, particularly great apes like gorillas, and then members of the cat family, like lions, tigers and leopards.”Enright said animals can get similar symptoms as people, and get very sick with pneumonia and